On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:12:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:59:23PM +0000, Andreas Tille wrote: > > www > > ------------------- > > While Josip Rodin was very active on this list he failed > > in finding a new activist after he became quiet since 2003. > > Frank Lichtenheld and Matt Kraai tried to fullfill this role > > but it seems we need more power in this team.
> Surely another legitimate interpretation of this would be that I just > talked way too much? :) > But yes, it does stand to reason that list activity correlates to overall > activity in the team; just perhaps not as much as this description implies. Right - the statistics themselves are interesting, but the assumption that more list posting is better is an unhealthy one. For instance, I was gratified to see the statistics for debian-legal, because they support my position that the discussion there is being DoSed by non-DDs who are trying to use it as a forum to persuade Debian that their interpretation of the DFSG is the correct one. And in the comments on debian-qa, Andreas, you conclude that QA is important and it would be good to see a wider base - but the debian-qa list is only a very small segment of the overall QA activity in Debian, most of which doesn't need centralized coordination... BTW, as near as I can tell the reports only show the figures for the top-ten all-time posters on each list. So there are probably a number of lists where the top poster within a single year isn't represented at all - what you're really capturing here is "when have the most active contributors to each mailing list been the most active", which isn't a very good proxy at all for "what is the list activity over time". Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
