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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] How many contributors are we losing
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
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On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 13:23 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:

> You can skim through the full list at the bottom of this message
> and make your own guesses at how much of this data is garbage.
> Even if 3/4 of the names here can be discounted, that still leaves
> over 500 people who came to us at one point with a patch that was
> good enough to be applied and then they left.

I know some of the names on the list which seem valid, but they are
still in the community at large they just aren't sending patches .. I'd
imagine not many of these people are gone from Linux, they're still
involved in some way.

(btw, Greg KH is listed under 2.6.25 .. )

Daniel