> We've had some great contributions from drive-bys down the years, 
quoted text
> and I see that as a gain rather than a loss.  I suppose it's a
> half-full versus half-empty perception.

Totally agree.  If someone finds one bug, sends us a fix and leaves
as a happy customer that is a wonderful thing.

Here's the (much shorter) list of people that contributed to two
consecutive releases and then disappeared.  These people made at
least two contributions across a 3+ month period. In most cases
this moves them out of the "drive-by" category.

Probably some of them moved on to do different things (or were
promoted to manage people who still work on Linux).

-Tony

Scanning 2.6.11-2.6.12
Jeff Muizelaar
Mikkel Krautz
Eric Lammerts
Marcel Sebek
Brian Waite
Werner Almesberger
Giorgio Padrin
Samuel Jean
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI
Markus Bollinger
Catalin Boie
Jerome Forissier
Stephen Tweedie
John Lenz
Shannon Holland
15 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.12-2.6.13
Narendra Sankar
Steven Cole
Thomas Charbonnel
Steven Scholz
Jun Komuro
Jarkko Raja
Dely Sy
Qu Fuping
Lars Marowsky-Bree
Peter Zubaj
10 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.13-2.6.14
Nick Sillik
Giancarlo Formicuccia
M.Baris Demiray
Nick Wilson
Linda Xie
Victor Fusco
Jan Veldeman
Andreas Steinmetz
8 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.14-2.6.15
Kenneth Tan
Stuart Auchterlonie
Henk
Felix Blyakher
KOVACS Krisztian
Mike Kershaw
Adam Brooks
Hironobu Ishii
Abhay Salunke
9 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.15-2.6.16
Kylene Jo Hall
Alex Aizman
Rui Santos
Chris Humbert
Thomas Young
Daniel Marjamaki
Samir Bellabes
Gabriel A. Devenyi
Marcus Sundberg
9 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.16-2.6.17
Seiji Munetoh
Mattias Nordstrom
Per Liden
Horst Schirmeier
Marco Manenti
Marcin Rudowski
Holger Eitzenberger
Nippun Goel
Roberto Nibali
Karsten Suehring
10 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.17-2.6.18
Thomas Kleffel
Frank Gevaerts
Laurent Meyer
Catherine Zhang
Jean-Luc Leger
Peter Horton
Tomasz Kazmierczak
Dustin Kirkland
Mandy Kirkconnell
Bastiaan Jacques
David Hollister
Wu Fengguang
12 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.18-2.6.19
Manoj Naik
Toralf Foerster
Thiago Galesi
Chris Boot
matthieu castet
Eric Hustvedt
Ben Williamson
Christoph Pfister
David Wang
Forrest Zhao
Chuck Short
Paul Collins
Suparna Bhattacharya
Dennis Munsie
Wong Hoi Sing Edison
15 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.19-2.6.20
Ernie Petrides
Ville Nuorvala
Tony Olech
Chris Lalancette
Ira W. Snyder
Kim Nordlund
David Anders
Sven Anders
nkalmala
Paul B Schroeder
Chad Sellers
11 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.20-2.6.21
Amit S. Kale
Sarah Bailey
Dimitri Gorokhovik
Cyrill V. Gorcunov
Ahmed Darwish
Miika Komu
Thomas Hellstrom
Mario Rossi
Justin Chen
Leonard Norrgard
Dan Carpenter
Masayuki Nakagawa
Thomas Hisch
Judith Lebzelter
James C Georgas
Conke Hu
16 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.21-2.6.22
Alexandr Andreev
Ville-Pekka Vainio
SUGIOKA Toshinobu
Benjamin Li
Aubrey Li
Dwaine P. Garden
Seth Forshee
Robert Peterson
Stuart Yoder
Frank Mandarino
Mark Glines
Monakhov Dmitriy
Mithlesh Thukral
Andrea Paterniani
14 never seen again

Scanning 2.6.22-2.6.23
Jennifer Hunt
Marc St-Jean
Christian Engelmayer
henry su
Bill Gatliff
Shani Moideen
David Lamparter
Tim Hockin
Jan Kratochvil
Marco Gittler
Junio C Hamano
Maik Hampel
Milind Arun Choudhary
Egor Martovetsky
Konstantin Sharlaimov
Ingo Korb
Santosh Rastapur
MOKUNO Masakazu
Denver Gingerich
19 never seen again
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