2007 a good year for the linux kernel

3 June 2008, 16:00

Looks like 2007 was a good year for the linux kernel project.

To quote LWN’s article:

Finally, given that we are starting a new year, it is worth taking a quick look back at the entirety of 2007. In 2007, Linus merged just over 30,000 changesets (more than 80 per day, every day) from 1900 developers working for (at least) 200 companies. All told, they changed over 2 million lines of code, growing the kernel by more than 750,000 lines. The kernel developers are, in other words, touching over 5,000 lines of code every day – that is a high rate of change.

Wow! I am having a hard time to believe that this can happen without breaking the project apart. This tremendous amount of work must require a good process and lots of communications. I’m pretty sure no single company could scale that well.

Way to go Linus!

— Olivier Bilodeau

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