I note
The preoccupation with making sure your contributions show as a nice graphic in your linked in page.
I don't know how significant the effect is, but it's not uncommon to come across commits the only real purpose of which is clearly just to add someone's name to the kernel contributors list.
I have (or had) some lines of code in the kernel too, as well as 20+ years of various other regular contributions, mostly as a packager. It wouldn't occur to me to use those to pad my linked in page, if I had one. Much less to use donation money to do that, as I believe it just attracts low quality code.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
