From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37D2BD00 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:17:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pf1-f180.google.com (mail-pf1-f180.google.com [209.85.210.180]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 372382C4 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pf1-f180.google.com with SMTP id h69-v6so12910427pfd.4 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Guenter Roeck Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:17:14 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Alexandre Belloni Message-ID: <20180911221714.GB13208@roeck-us.net> References: <8412864.7ztUKcXNNC@avalon> <2019489.6joTqyUi4Z@avalon> <20180911124423.GM2494@piout.net> <20180911220047.GQ2494@piout.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20180911220047.GQ2494@piout.net> Cc: ksummit Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:00:47AM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > > > > Looking at drivers/rtc over the past 2-3 years it seems like a > > decently active subsystem. Probably on the small side of things, but > > not catastrophically so. But looking at contributor stats the picture > > is totally different: > > > > 241 Alexandre Belloni > > 28 Linus Torvalds > > 27 Arnd Bergmann > > 25 Javier Martinez Canillas > > 20 Uwe Kleine-König > > > > That kind of skewed contribution statistics is indeed not sustainable, > > and indicates some serious problem imo. What exactly goes wrong, and > > how to best fix it I can't tell without more information though. From > > my experience in drm, where we also have some areas with highly skewed > > contribution statistics, it could be the maintainer driving people > > away, ensuring that there's only one-off contributions. Usually > > unkowningly. > > I have just seen this. I guess I must be driving _lots_ of people away. git shortlog --no-merges -e -s -n v4.4..v4.18 drivers/watchdog 83 Guenter Roeck 24 Wolfram Sang 20 Damien Riegel 17 Arnd Bergmann git shortlog --no-merges -e -s -n v4.4..v4.18 drivers/hwmon 157 Guenter Roeck 70 Julia Lawall 23 Javier Martinez Canillas 10 Linus Walleij 9 Pali Rohár And there it was me erroneously thinking that this might be related to me picking up subsystems for which there is not much interest, and to doing a lot of cleanup in those subsystems in my non-existing spare time. Bummer. Oh well, my apologies to everyone I have driven away. Guenter