On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:59:39PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:14:18PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > > the number of DDs has not been going up for quite a while now. > > If it hasn't declined very much, that'd be a good thing already. > > FWIW, the total number of DDs is not a particularly good indicator of > the work force we have in Debian.
That is true to some extent, but not entirely. Only Debian Developers can upload random packages, sponsor other people's packages, perform NMUs, etc. I also would feel uncomfortable with having a Debian Maintainer perform an unsupervised upload of a core package like dpkg or glibc. So while Debian Developers are not necessarily the whole work force we have in Debian, they are the core and more important part. > Until recently, with the introduction of (periodic) WAT runs, the > number of DDs was just meant to go up and up, given that people > basically needed to voluntarily resign, even if they have been > inactive for very long time. That number was indeed meant to go up, but it didn't. That in itself is indicative of a problem; even with the voluntary-only resigning of people, the influx of new blood did not outperform the exodus of resigning developers. [...] -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100316140509.gh7...@celtic.nixsys.be