On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 18:23, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > > On 2024-08-01 12:23:43 +0100 (+0100), Luca Boccassi wrote: > [...] > > To pick a random example, a less well known, less used, less > > popular distribution like Nixos has 7000+ contributors listed on > > Github. > [...] > > Just to pick on this particular point, because I see this metric > used all the time by projects trying to inflate public impressions > of their size: you're aware that GitHub counts someone as a > "contributor" even if all the do is leave a comment on a bug report, > right? By that gauge, Debian is probably orders of magnitude larger.
I'm not, no, I thought it was committers/authors? But I haven't really looked it up so you might very well be right. Where did you find that defined?
