Who wrote Linux Kernel 2.6.20?

I've always been curious who are these people who commit so much personal time on open source projects (instead of doing rounded corners kind of web 2.0 work) and I googled Jeff Garzik, seemingly the most productive developer during this release:<p><a href="http://linux.yyz.us" rel="nofollow">http://linux.yyz.us</a><p>Notice that even his home page is all about his projects as opposed to self-promotion.<p>Compare that to the douchebag Seth Sternberg (<a href="http://bit.ly/1m9PTZ" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/1m9PTZ</a>), who built a company on top of libpurple's team open sourced work, bragged about building "from nothing to something" and <i>didn't even mention them</i> in TC article, preferring to speak about his "desire to build the next great thing" buillshit instead.

From 2007. Try this:<p><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/348445/" rel="nofollow">http://lwn.net/Articles/348445/</a>

2.6.20 is relatively old, of course; I've done this research for every subsequent kernel as well. If you go to the LWN kernel index (<a href="http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/" rel="nofollow">http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/</a>) and look under "releases", you'll find the stats for each kernel release.<p>There's a longer-term version of this research available from the front page of the Linux Foundation's site as well.

It's disappointing that Google isn't more prominent on that list given their dependence on open source in so many places and having acquired such deep talent over the years.

Related, "Linux Kernel Development Stats from Greg Kroah Hartman": <a href="http://bit.ly/1rutJD" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/1rutJD</a>