I was watching Greg K-H's webcast on linux kernel development statistics a couple of days ago. He mentioned that canonical was at around rank 300 when it came to contributing to linux kernel. They submitted like four patches in last kernel release.
So today i tried finding out how much of the distribution kernels actually end up getting submitted upstream.... or at least i tried to in case of fedora and suse.
With ubunut's hardy and interpid trees it was rather easy just add and fetch their remote branches to my local updated linux git tree and then do a git log on differences.
But to my surprise and big frustration i had no luck finding out git trees for both fedora _and_ suse. They either have no git based tree for their development or make it really hard to get to one.
What was even more shocking was that they actually do maintain a CVS repo of the added patch set. I have no words to express my anger.... its insane.
For being labeled a very bad contributor to linux i think canonical is doing wonderful job. I guess this kind of "getting the basic fundamentals right" and simple "making sense" things that make the overall ubuntu a great distro (that i find hard to part with). Kudos canonical, even if you don't contribute back to kernel directly you are contributing a lot to the community if only by virtue of example.
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