On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:49:02 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:25:57PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 20:45 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > That caused the huge backlog staring at > > > me right now. > > > > Which likely discouraged the new contributors who > > submitted stuff still in that backlog. > > While a series of unfortunate events did happen to cause this, do you > have any evidence of this causing people to go away? Subjectively the answer is yes I think. More quantatively it was the case. I did some measurements long ago with 2.4-ac and there was direct and clear connection between two things and patch submission/activity levels. One was 'cycle time' (ie time from submit->response->tree) - the other was putting the name of the contributor in the per -ac patch summaries that used to get mailed out. Alan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
