The Kernel Community — Participants and Activities
recording made private on YouTubehttps://youtu.be/binLH8eWNnc
summary
The talk outlines the Linux kernel community’s scale and workflow: the kernel is about 17 million lines of code with over 3,000 developers from 430+ companies. Development follows a strict time-based cadence (new releases every 2–3 months, weekly stable fixes, and one long‑term kernel per year maintained for two years), with contributions routed through ~700 file maintainers and ~150 subsystem maintainers into an automated linux-next tree and an acceptance rate averaging ~7.5 patch changes per hour.
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