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How many of those 20k contributors worked on drivers, and how many - on the actual core (~150kloc)? Every driver is like a separate subproject, having 20k peopl
by kgeist 6y ago
How many of those 20k contributors worked on drivers, and how many - on the actual core (~150kloc)? Every driver is like a separate subproject, having 20k people work on hundreds/thousands of drivers (unrelated to each other) wouldn't sound as impressive.
- thrower123 6y agoThat's the scary thing. How many real, core contributors does even something like the Linux kernel have? People who have actually written more than a couple patches that landed and stayed in the kernel. I'd be astounded if it's much more than a hundred. Most open-source projects have one to maybe five real contributors, outside the drive-by pull requests to fix some bug.