Vetter: Linux Kernel Maintainer Statistics

Daniel Vetter looks atsome kernel-development statistics, with a focus on patches written bythe maintainers who commit them. "Naively extrapolating the relative trend predicts that around the year 2025 large numbers of kernel maintainers will do nothing else than be the bottleneck, preventing everyone else from getting their work merged and not contributing anything of their own. The kernel community imploding under its own bureaucratic weight being the likely outcome of that.This is a huge contrast to the 'everything is getting better, bigger, andthe kernel community is very healthy' fanfare touted at keynotes and theyearly kernel report. In my opinion, the kernel community is very much notlooking like it is coping with its growth well and an overall healthycommunity."