[$] Development statistics for the 5.0 kernel
The announcement of the 5.0-rc7 kernel
prepatch on February 17 signaled the imminent release of the final 5.0
kernel and the end of this development cycle. 5.0, as it turns out,
brought in fewer changesets than its immediate predecessors, but it was
still a busy cycle with a lot of developers participating. Read on for an
overview of where the work came from in this release cycle.