From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <1373924046.2062.43.camel@joe-AO722> Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stable kernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag From: Joe Perches To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Willy Tarreau , James Bottomley , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 14:34:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1373923281.17876.208.camel@gandalf.local.home> References: <1373916476.2748.69.camel@dabdike> <1373917517.17876.193.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20130715195505.GE10157@1wt.eu> <1373921779.17876.200.camel@gandalf.local.home> <1373922593.2062.36.camel@joe-AO722> <1373923281.17876.208.camel@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 17:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > How many maintainers are really just volunteers? No idea. Here's a data point. $ git grep "^S:" MAINTAINERS|sed -r 's/\s+/ /g'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn 818 MAINTAINERS:S: Maintained 248 MAINTAINERS:S: Supported 49 MAINTAINERS:S: Odd Fixes 32 MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan 10 MAINTAINERS:S: Odd fixes 2 MAINTAINERS:S: Unmaintained 1 MAINTAINERS:S: Orphan / Obsolete 1 MAINTAINERS:S: Odd Fixes (e.g., new signatures) 1 MAINTAINERS:S: Obsolete 1 MAINTAINERS:S: Maintained for 2.6. 1 MAINTAINERS:S: Maintained: 1 MAINTAINERS:S: Buried alive in reporters I will note that most MAINTAINER section entries don't actually have people actively shepherding patches. There's no aging out of inactive entries. > And of those, how many have critical parts of the kernel > that distros rely on. No idea. I'd guess most distributions don't go out of their way to hire folk when "good enough" seems to be working. > If they do, then one would think that a distro > would hire them.