On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On 9 Apr 1998, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> >
> > Brian Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > After both Manoj Srivastava and Bob Hilliard pointed out to me the faults
> > > in using the Maintainers file for determining the number of maintainers, I
> > > have decided to use the Debian PGP keyring. After deleting duplicate
> > > keys,
> > > the keyring says that there are 313 developers, making Q 8.85 and K 5.
> > >
> > > Brian
> >
> > You know what would be cool - if the www.debian.org homepage had a
> > running count of the number of maintainers!
> >
> > That's Debian's biggest selling point, as far as I'm concerned.
>
> What happens with a public key if a maintainer orphans all his/her
> packages and leaves the project? Is it kept in the keyring or is it
> removed? If it isn't removed the numbers would be too high, IMO.
>
But it also leaves out testers, who provide no pgp keys. So the number
could be too low ;-)
Luck,
Dwarf
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