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+-   Drive-By Contributors to the Linux Kernel-> on Wednesday June 04 2008, @11:47AM eldavojohn

Submitted by eldavojohn on Wednesday June 04 2008, @11:47AM
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eldavojohn writes "There's an interesting post over at the Kernel Trap that focuses on a man's attempt to find out how many one time contributors Linux averages per release. Although imperfect due to some obvious unavoidable flaws, he got a few dirty numbers of 'never seen from agains' in the commits from patches 2.6.11 through 2.6.25 and the numbers are: {63, 148, 128, 92, 96, 122, 137, 140, 135, 95, 136, 153, 179, 179, 304}. This makes sense as another reader, Greg KH, pointed out that the distribution curve is tilted towards one hit contributions, "the distribution of all of our users are: 50% only contributed 1 patch; 25% contributed 2; 12% contributed 3; 6% contributed 4 and so on ...""
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