Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist The http://www.debian.org/devel/people page gives maintainers recognition for the quantity of packages they maintain, not for their quality. I think this reinforces the wrong motives in developers. I'm all for giving developers recognition for their contribution to Debian, but let it be for making Debian better, not larger.
I'm hazy on what the best solution is, so what follows are some ideas to get started thinking about the problem. Please don't be diverted by my implementation suggestions. I'll be happy with any improvement that solves the problem of recognition of the quality of developers' contributions, and am not particularly attached to any one of the following suggestions. Perhaps either drop the package listings altogether, or replace them with links to the appropriate http://qa.debian.org/developer.php page. Or conversely, merge some statistics from the developer.php page back into the /devel/people page (e.g. overall bug resolve rate, overall outstanding RC bugs, or whatever reasonable stats summarizing quality could be distilled from developer.php without cluttering up /devel/people). However, I expect this approach to be rather contentious, as people will complain about how those numbers are unfairly biased. But the current list of all packages is biased towards quantity, so if it's a matter of choosing one set of biased statistics over another, I'd rather see stats that attempt to measure package quality than quantity. Thanks, Ben Armstrong -- syrng at debian dot org
