matteo@raver:~/src/kernel/linux$ for i in {2005..2018}; do echo "Top ten $i"; git shortlog -sn --no-merges --since=$i-01-01 --until=$((i+1))-01-01 |head -10 |cat -n ; echo; done Top ten 2005 1 340 Ralf Baechle 2 333 Al Viro 3 333 Russell King 4 269 David S. Miller 5 255 Adrian Bunk 6 236 Paul Mackerras 7 212 Christoph Hellwig 8 208 Andi Kleen 9 193 Stephen Hemminger 10 192 Andrew Morton Top ten 2006 1 766 Al Viro 2 607 David S. Miller 3 514 Adrian Bunk 4 511 Andrew Morton 5 499 Takashi Iwai 6 459 Andi Kleen 7 441 Ralf Baechle 8 424 Tejun Heo 9 376 Stephen Hemminger 10 314 Ingo Molnar Top ten 2007 1 506 Ralf Baechle 2 484 Thomas Gleixner 3 437 Adrian Bunk 4 436 David S. Miller 5 394 Tejun Heo 6 351 Paul Mundt 7 348 Ingo Molnar 8 335 Al Viro 9 330 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 10 316 Andrew Morton Top ten 2008 1 926 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 2 875 Ingo Molnar 3 739 David S. Miller 4 700 Adrian Bunk 5 601 Harvey Harrison 6 519 Yinghai Lu 7 507 Paul Mundt 8 484 Al Viro 9 477 Takashi Iwai 10 446 Alan Cox Top ten 2009 1 687 Ingo Molnar 2 683 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 3 594 Takashi Iwai 4 577 Greg Kroah-Hartman 5 522 Johannes Berg 6 500 Paul Mundt 7 482 Peter Zijlstra 8 460 Mark Brown 9 437 Steven Rostedt 10 394 Alan Cox Top ten 2010 1 546 Joe Perches 2 510 Dan Carpenter 3 507 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 4 493 Chris Wilson 5 469 Johannes Berg 6 465 Eric Dumazet 7 412 Paul Mundt 8 396 Mark Brown 9 382 Greg Kroah-Hartman 10 365 Uwe Kleine-König Top ten 2011 1 881 Mark Brown 2 626 K. Y. Srinivasan 3 618 Thomas Gleixner 4 571 Axel Lin 5 497 David S. Miller 6 455 Takashi Iwai 7 447 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 8 425 Al Viro 9 409 Tejun Heo 10 407 Ben Skeggs Top ten 2012 1 1447 H Hartley Sweeten 2 991 Mark Brown 3 895 Al Viro 4 751 Axel Lin 5 551 Johannes Berg 6 535 Greg Kroah-Hartman 7 529 Daniel Vetter 8 432 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9 425 Russell King 10 415 David S. Miller Top ten 2013 1 1582 H Hartley Sweeten 2 1254 Sachin Kamat 3 1236 Jingoo Han 4 813 Laurent Pinchart 5 678 Al Viro 6 649 Mark Brown 7 611 Alex Deucher 8 560 Tejun Heo 9 558 Daniel Vetter 10 549 Takashi Iwai Top ten 2014 1 1620 H Hartley Sweeten 2 825 Jes Sorensen 3 742 Malcolm Priestley 4 603 Geert Uytterhoeven 5 534 Fabian Frederick 6 514 Lars-Peter Clausen 7 494 Johan Hedberg 8 492 Laurent Pinchart 9 486 Takashi Iwai 10 483 Wolfram Sang Top ten 2015 1 784 H Hartley Sweeten 2 683 Geert Uytterhoeven 3 534 Viresh Kumar 4 512 Lars-Peter Clausen 5 480 Arnd Bergmann 6 467 Takashi Iwai 7 460 Ville Syrjälä 8 454 Mateusz Kulikowski 9 423 Krzysztof Kozlowski 10 422 Mauro Carvalho Chehab Top ten 2016 1 1062 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2 983 Chris Wilson 3 815 Arnd Bergmann 4 583 Linus Walleij 5 503 Geert Uytterhoeven 6 481 Ville Syrjälä 7 446 Al Viro 8 409 Daniel Vetter 9 400 Wei Yongjun 10 398 Christoph Hellwig Top ten 2017 1 1035 Chris Wilson 2 819 Arvind Yadav 3 791 Colin Ian King 4 767 Arnd Bergmann 5 749 Christoph Hellwig 6 598 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 7 562 Kees Cook 8 548 Geert Uytterhoeven 9 442 Masahiro Yamada 10 438 Markus Elfring Top ten 2018 1 859 Christoph Hellwig 2 792 Colin Ian King 3 693 Chris Wilson 4 677 Arnd Bergmann 5 522 Kuninori Morimoto 6 479 Gustavo A. R. Silva 7 476 Geert Uytterhoeven 8 463 Masahiro Yamada 9 447 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 10 439 Hans de Goede