[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

In fact, the top five developers, Al Viro (1.9 percent of the total percentage of changes to the kernel); David Miller (1.8 percent); Adrian Bunk (1.7 percent); Ralf Baechle (1.6 percent); and Andrew Morton (1.5 percent), alone accounted for 8.5 percent of Linux’s recent code changes.

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Fred Brooks (The Mythical Man Month) is proven correct yet again. His thesis has always been that a few key people are what drive big engineering projects, and that adding people to a project can slow it down instead of speed it up.

Or put another way, if a woman can make a baby in 9 months, it’s not true that 9 women can make a baby in 1 month.

[Still Thinking]

I like the original phrasing: “The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”