Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] community management/subsystem governance

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

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 <linux@roeck-us.net>
   24	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
   20	Damien Riegel <damien.riegel@savoirfairelinux.com>
   17	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

git shortlog --no-merges -e -s -n v4.4..v4.18 drivers/hwmon

   157	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
    70	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
    23	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
    10	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
    9	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>

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