Learning Linux Kernel

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Mon Dec 12 19:30:39 EST 2011


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 05:37:56AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Just curious to know about total number of linux kernel developers in the world
> who contribute to linux kernel codebase. Any wiki or webpage which mentions
> about it?

The Linux Foundation has a report every year about this detailing this
type of information.  Also, lwn.net reports on this every kernel
release, see those articles for details.

Oh, and as a teaser, for the past year of releases, 2.6.36 - 3.1.0
(October 2010 to October 2011) there was 2889 different developers who
got patches accepted into the Linux kernel codebase.

greg k-h



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