This page contains only irrelevant and unhelpful information and statistics about Alpine Linux. If you are going to prepare a talk about Alpine Linux, perhaps some information mentioned here can be used for the intro.

The first release

Archives going back to 1.1 are (currently) at http://ancient.alpinelinux.org
First public mention of "Alpine Linux" is archived here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.leaf.devel/1183 (2005)
The first saved release notes were made for 1.7.3.

The name

"Alpine" originally stood for A Linux Powered Integrated Network Engine. The idea was that the distribution would be focused on networking, and be a tiny "engine" or framework, which larger systems could be built upon. Today, "Alpine" is nothing more than a name.

Who is working on Alpine Linux?

Check the statistics of cgit, e. g. aports

Packages

aports statistics provided by Ohloh.

Packages per release

Release	Total	normal	dev	doc	libs
3.0	4410	2752	578	1029	51
2.7	4205	2605	570	982	48
2.6	3918	2405	534	943	36
2.5	3676	2233	498	912	33
2.4	3376	2021	457	874	24
2.3	3146	1866	435	827	18
2.2	2608	1502	444	652	10
2.1	2135	1222	365	547	1
2.0	1983	1139	332	511	1
1.10	1639	918	282	438	1
1.9	958	549	139	269	1

Commit per year to aports

2008 : 146
2009 : 3122
2010 : 3365
2011 : 5561
2012 : 5312
2013 : 5722 (Nov. 2013)

"High score list" of committer to aports

 15214	Natanael Copa
  1231	William Pitcock
  1114	Fabian Affolter
   973	Leonardo Arena
   842	Carlo Landmeter
   780	Timo Teräs
   693	Bartłomiej Piotrowski
   562	Francesco Colista
   460	Ted Trask
   334	Michael Mason

First commit to aports

The first commit in git was made:

commit 645531103b2ee8ef54d53a58eca3b52f7d3fb9ac
Author: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Date:   Sat Oct 18 09:16:29 2008 +0000

    added busybox