“‘I re-ran some statistics the other day on our kernel
development rate, and changed my formula after Andrew accused me of
severely undercounting the rate of change,’ noted Greg KH during a
discussion about the stability of the Linux kernel while undergoing
significant changes. He continued, ‘turns out that as of 2.6.24-rc8
for the 2.6.24 kernel release we did: lines added per day, 4945;
lines removed per day, 2006; lines modified per day, 1702’. Greg
continued:“‘And note, that is real stuff, not renames or file moves at
all, git handles not reporting that. That’s for the 99 days that it
took to do 2.6.24-rc8 (I need to re-run the scripts now that 2.6.24
is out.) It’s fricken scarily amazing that things are still working
at all… Just something to make you all sleep well at
night…”