Workload
There were nearly 75,000 code commits to the kernel during 2019 ... the top contributing individuals were Linus Torvalds, with 3.19 per cent of the commits ...
That's 2392 commits over the year, which is one every 3 hours 40 minutes, day and night with no holiday. Impressive, but not a patch on
Another point of interest is that systemd, a replacement for init that is the first process to run when Linux starts, is now approaching 1.3 million lines of code thanks to nearly 43,000 commits in 2019. Top contributor was not systemd founder Lennart Poettering (who was second), but Yu Watanabe with 26.94 per cent of the commits.
That's 11,584 commits, which is one every 45 minutes with neither sleep nor time off. Wow.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
