Re: Related work to MAINTAINERS truth and fiction

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 07:57:51 +0100
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pia Eichinger has done some related analysis and work in this area as
> part of her bachelor's thesis on Maintainers Expectations vs.
> Maintainers Reality: An Analysis of Organisational and Maintenance
> Structure of the Linux Kernel. Simply quoting her conclusion:
> 
> "We showed that around 20% of all patches were theoretically wrongly
> integrated when strictly analysing MAINTAINERS. The reality of
> integration and maintenance structure is more complicated than that,
> which we also explored. Furthermore, we identified 12 major subsystems
> of the Linux kernel. This is very helpful for an overview of the
> organisational structure, realistic grouping of subsystems and further
> Linux kernel topology discussions."
> 
> Announcement and thesis here:
> https://lists.elisa.tech/g/devel/message/1269
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/12ta2YxgEzEfrIcmWid8kwIyVEywbUjbA/view?usp=sharing

Interesting, I was completely unaware of this work.  I blame Wolfgang, who
should have pointed it out to me :)

Thanks,

jon