hp + linux changesets
A new update on Linux Kernel Development stats has been released. The report is interesting in and of itself, of course, but I was curious as to how HP stacked up compared to other companies.
I grabbed the generated stats, and of course, because I’m a dork, used the following one-liner to generate the results:
for i in * ; do echo $i ; cat $i | awk '/Top changeset contributors by employer/,/HP/ { print $0 }' | awk '{print NR-1 "\t" $0}' | grep HP; done
And the results:
results-2.6.11 14 HP 39 (1.0%) results-2.6.12 15 HP 50 (0.9%) results-2.6.13 12 HP 39 (0.9%) results-2.6.14 18 HP 35 (0.9%) results-2.6.15 15 HP 59 (1.1%) results-2.6.16 21 HP 31 (0.5%) results-2.6.17 14 HP 65 (1.1%) results-2.6.18 13 HP 67 (1.0%) results-2.6.19 14 HP 87 (1.2%) results-2.6.20 15 HP 62 (1.2%) results-2.6.21 24 HP 35 (0.7%) results-2.6.22 16 HP 72 (1.1%) results-2.6.23 26 HP 48 (0.7%) results-2.6.24 20 HP 76 (0.7%)
The way to interpret the above is, company contributor rank, HP, number of changesets for that release, percentage of changesets for that release.
Looks like HP has always kinda been in the top 25 or so “Top changeset contributors by employer”, and the average rank is 16. Not too shabby, I guess, but for the other non pure-play Linux companies (aka not Red Hat nor Novell, etc.) IBM is consistently in the top 5, Intel is consistently in the top 8, and Oracle has been in the top 10 since 2.6.19 (with one exception).
It’s not hard to tell which companies are investing in Linux development.
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