A nixCraft tweet with IMHO quite misleading statics on #Linux #kernel development is making the rounds: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1390981308017414146">https://twitter.com/nixcraft/...
FWIW, if you want proper data, better look at what http://lwn.net"> http://lwn.net or the LF ( https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/publications/linux-kernel-report-2020/)">https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources... occasionally publish. Here is why:
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FWIW, if you want proper data, better look at what http://lwn.net"> http://lwn.net or the LF ( https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/publications/linux-kernel-report-2020/)">https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources... occasionally publish. Here is why:
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- the author attribution in nixCraft tweet (and the website they used to generate the data: https://linux-commits-search.typesense.org/ ">https://linux-commits-search.typesense.org/">... ) seems to be generated from "Signed-of-by" tags, not from the "From" tag, which would be more appropriate. That& #39;s why…
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…Linus Torvalds and the LF are in the top of the lists "Author" and "Domains/Org contributing". In the stats from the LF itself (see link and screenshot from the initial tweet of this thread) the LF only makes it to the 20st place, as they are counting properly.
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