Hello everyone, I am conducting research for the CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation regarding the reasons that Linux kernel developers do NOT submit their changes upstream. The intended participants for this survey are developers who have modified the Linux kernel, but who, for one reason or another, have not submitted their change(s) to the mainline or upstream kernel tree.
This research is part of an effort to more officially quantify the obstacles (or perception of obstacles), that developers have with regard to contributing to the Linux kernel. It is hoped that this information will help inform continuing efforts to help remove those obstacles, and lower the barriers to participating in the Linux kernel development community. The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes. I would be very pleased if everyone who receives this e-mail can take the survey. I hope to present the results at a talk I am giving at the upcoming Embedded Linux Conference Europe. I know that the reach of this e-mail is limited to those subscribed to this e-mail list. Please forward this to other kernel developers in your organization, and encourage them to take the survey as well. Here is the URL for the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2VHVHBN The following command may be helpful for finding e-mail addresses of kernel developers in your organization: (do this on internal trees, to find the e-mails for developers who may not have commits in mainline!) Replace <company.com> with a search expression that will match e-mail addresses for your organization. $ git log --author=<company.com> --format="%ae" | sort | uniq Please take the survey by October 6. Thanks! -- Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Software Engineer, Sony Mobile _______________________________________________ Celinux-dev mailing list Celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org https://lists.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev
