Re: Number of Maintainers
On 9 Apr 1998, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> Brian Bassett <brian@butterfly.ml.org> writes:
>
> > After both Manoj Srivastava and Bob Hilliard pointed out to me the faults
> > in using the Maintainers file for determining the number of maintainers, I
> > have decided to use the Debian PGP keyring. After deleting duplicate keys,
> > the keyring says that there are 313 developers, making Q 8.85 and K 5.
> >
> > Brian
>
> You know what would be cool - if the www.debian.org homepage had a
> running count of the number of maintainers!
>
> That's Debian's biggest selling point, as far as I'm concerned.
What happens with a public key if a maintainer orphans all his/her
packages and leaves the project? Is it kept in the keyring or is it
removed? If it isn't removed the numbers would be too high, IMO.
Remco
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