On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 07:57:51 +0100 Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pia Eichinger has done some related analysis and work in this area as > part of her bachelor's thesis on Maintainers Expectations vs. > Maintainers Reality: An Analysis of Organisational and Maintenance > Structure of the Linux Kernel. Simply quoting her conclusion: > > "We showed that around 20% of all patches were theoretically wrongly > integrated when strictly analysing MAINTAINERS. The reality of > integration and maintenance structure is more complicated than that, > which we also explored. Furthermore, we identified 12 major subsystems > of the Linux kernel. This is very helpful for an overview of the > organisational structure, realistic grouping of subsystems and further > Linux kernel topology discussions." > > Announcement and thesis here: > https://lists.elisa.tech/g/devel/message/1269 > https://drive.google.com/file/d/12ta2YxgEzEfrIcmWid8kwIyVEywbUjbA/view?usp=sharing Interesting, I was completely unaware of this work. I blame Wolfgang, who should have pointed it out to me :) Thanks, jon
