[$] Some 5.5 kernel development statistics

The 5.5 kernel was released onJanuary 26. Over the course of this development cycle, it wasoccasionally said that the holidays were slowing contributions. At theend, though, 5.5 saw the merging of 14,350 non-merge changesets from 1,885developers - not exactly a slow-moving cycle. Indeed, 5.5 just barelyedged out 5.4 as the kernel with the most developers ever. Read on for ourtraditional look at where the contributions to 5.5 came from, along with adigression into the stable-update process.