Re: Volume on -devel
Ian Jackson wrote:
> -devel is too high volume, and has many posts from people who are
> apparently lacking in clues. I hope that these people (I won't name
> names) are not developers.
>
> I renew my call for -devel to be closed to non-developer postings.
>
> Perhaps if -devel didn't have postings from nondevelopers we wouldn't
> be so tempted to discuss things on -private when there is no need for
> privacy.
Let's look at some hard numbers first. I looked at all posts this month to
debian-devel. I used some hueristics to try to match those posts up to the
list of developers.
The results: of 1596 postings, 1158 were from developers, 438 were not.
These are the top posters amoung non-developers:
40 no: Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>
27 no: Jonathan P Tomer <phouchg@cif.rochester.edu>
24 no: "Ivan E. Moore II" <rkrusty@tdyc.com>
20 no: "Phillip R. Jaenke" <prj@nls.net>
18 no: Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>
16 no: Pedro Guerreiro <pguerreiro@bigfoot.com>
14 no: Bruce Sass <bsass@bms.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
12 no: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
9 no: David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org>
7 no: Ionutz Borcoman <borco@borco-ei.eng.hokudai.ac.jp>
7 no: "Seth M. Landsman" <seth@job.cs.brandeis.edu>
7 no: "Alexander N. Benner" <Nikodemus@innocent.com>
5 no: bruce@hams.com
5 no: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
5 no: Remco Blaakmeer <remco-blaakmeer@quicknet.nl>
5 no: Jim Freeman <jfree@sovereign.org>
5 no: Bruce Sass <bsass@ecn.ab.ca>
For comparison, the top posters amoung the developers:
61 yes: Joseph Carter
36 yes: Wichert Akkerman
35 yes: Jules Bean
32 yes: Santiago Vila
30 yes: Hamish Moffatt
29 yes: Marcus Brinkmann
28 yes: Ben Pfaff
27 yes: John Lapeyre
27 yes: John Hasler
24 yes: Branden Robinson
23 yes: Josip Rodin
23 yes: Joel Klecker
22 yes: Steve Dunham
20 yes: Rob Browning
20 yes: Joey Hess
20 yes: Andreas Tille
19 yes: Edward Betts
18 yes: Stephane Bortzmeyer
17 yes: Sven LUTHER
16 yes: Shaleh
16 yes: Richard Braakman
16 yes: Enrique Zanardi
15 yes: Steve McIntyre
15 yes: Julian Gilbey
Well I don't know what conclusion to draw from all this. :-) If the problem
is that we get lots of clueless posts from lots of different people, closing
the list off might be the right solution. If on the other hand, we're
getting lots of clueless posts from only a few people, perhaps those people
should be taken aside and spoken too.
--
see shy jo
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