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

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports can give you a little insight

Packages per release

Release	Total	normal	dev	doc	libs
3.12	4832	3172	500	1073	87
3.11	5352	3430	620	1211	91
3.10	5669	3724	631	1224	90
3.9	5703	3721	652	1241	89
3.8	5674	3652	663	1272	87
3.7	5699	3629	683	1298	89
3.6	5548	3510	681	1271	86
3.5	5643	3615	678	1264	86
3.4	5231	3253	664	1235	79
3.3	5314	3328	676	1239	71
3.2	5277	3343	684	1189	61
3.1	4860	3075	620	1109	56
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 : 6597
2014 : 5759
2015 : 7315
2016 : 9065
2017 : 11661
2018 : 9546
2019 : 18759
2020 : 10597 (so far)

"High score list" of committer to aports

Don't get this the wrong way...those are just numbers. Every single contributions is making a difference.

 35479  Natanael Copa
  9036  Leo
  5382  Francesco Colista
  3699  Jakub Jirutka
  3429  Leonardo Arena
  3033  Carlo Landmeter
  2857  Timo Teräs
  2382  Fabian Affolter
  2145  Sören Tempel
  1971  William Pitcock

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