How Has Covid-19 Impacted the Kernel Development over the Last Year?
summary
Analysis of kernel git history using craiget shows about 21,000 contributors (33,000 emails) and 119 million tokens in Linux 5.14, with roughly 12 million tokens added during 2020. Monthly contributors and commits stay flat-to-upward through March 2020, then vary more; median contributor experience keeps rising. About 7–10% of contributors are women (~150 per release) but only 17 women (≈2.5% of 701) commit others’ code. Many contributors are one-month drive-by commits; organizational sponsorship appears central to long-term sustainability.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:50Tools used
- 3:08Tokens
- 4:15Token Replacement
- 6:43Record Number of Contributors
- 8:37Kernel Growth
- 14:50Last 3 Years
- 16:44Commits
- 17:58Commit Bones
- 19:10Sustainability
- 22:25Three sets of contributors
- 30:22Diversity
- 37:14Survey Results
- 41:52Conclusion
