3 ms·
Linux Kernel Maintainer Statistics
- parvenu74 9y agoI'm curious if the maintainer stats include demographics such as race, gender, etc. An open project where anyone who wants to contribute may do so would provide a sociologically interesting set of data points which could be useful in targeting STEM curriculum or highlighting success stories we don't yet realize.
- danvet 9y agoThere's no one keeping track of that as far as I know, but the group picture of kernel maintainers (just picked the first one google brought up) is fairly informative on your questions. https://lwn.net/Articles/705244/ https://lwn.net/Articles/705244/ I wouldn't say that the kernel community is a success storie in this regard ...