On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 05:37:56AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> Just curious to know about total number of linux kernel developers in the world >> who contribute to linux kernel codebase. Any wiki or webpage which mentions >> about it? > > The Linux Foundation has a report every year about this detailing this > type of information. Also, lwn.net reports on this every kernel > release, see those articles for details. > > Oh, and as a teaser, for the past year of releases, 2.6.36 - 3.1.0 > (October 2010 to October 2011) there was 2889 different developers who > got patches accepted into the Linux kernel codebase. > > greg k-h > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies Hi Kaushal Goof to hear you want to be part of Linux Kernel, here is a good article of How to participate on the Linux Community http://www.linuxfoundation.org/content/how-participate-linux-community-0 Learn GIT (maybe you already know it ) http://git-scm.com/ Clone the mainstream Kernel by it self http://kernel.org/ Check the code you will see that must of the code is in C Now after you feel confident on C (recommended book = C Programming Language Kernighan) you can start to run the latest Kernel on your Linux machine, subscribe to an specific Mailing list of development you want to follow, apply the RFC patches and check if it works , suggest new ideas or even work on the solution for existing bugs in bugzila. Have fun :) Check on the article for this good advice Andrew Morton gives this advice for aspiring kernel developers The #1 project for all kernel beginners should surely be "make sure that the kernel runs perfectly at all times on all machines which you can lay your hands on". Usually the way to do this is to work with others on getting things fixed up (this can require persistence!) but that's fine--it's a part of kernel development. Hope it helps Victor Rodriguez _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
