[ Thanks to Britta Wuelfing for
this link. ]
“Torvalds presents further statistics for those who
appreciate them. The kernel involved 7,141 non-merge commits, 419
of them merges to separate developer source code archives. Each
change removed on average 39 lines and added 104 lines of code.
About 880 authors contributed, of which 183 had 10 or more commits
and 340 had just one commit.”