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Re: Wish: Unfreeze Woody and start anew



Title: Re: Wish: Unfreeze Woody and start anew

Hi,

>  > Potato was released August 15, 2000. That means Woody is approaching two
>  > years. (http://www.debian.org/News/2000/20000815)
>  >
>  > Slink was released March 9, 1999. That means potato took 18 months.
>  > (http://www.debian.org/News/1999/19990309)
>  >
>  > Hamm was released July 24, 1998. That means slink took a little over 7
>  > months. (http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980724)
>  >
>  > Debian 1.3 was released June 2, 1997. That means Hamm took almost 14
>  > months. (http://www.debian.org/News/1997/19970602)
>  >
>  > Before this, the News section does not tell.
>  >
>  > Woody will be the longest Debian release cycle to date. Hopefully for
>  > ever.
>
> Hrm.  I'm not so hopeful, but not complaining, either.
>
> What's the packages per developer per release time average?

Packages from main+contrib+non-free Packages.gz entries
Potato developers from Potato release notes
Woody developers from devel/people page

              Packages Arch   Time    Developers
bo (1.3.1):    1126    1       ?         ?
hamm (2.0):    3400    2   14 months     ?
slink (2.1):   9457    4    7 months     ?
potato (2.2): 23957    6   18 months    ~500
woody (3.0):  90497   11    2 years    ~1000

(warnings: developers don't mean active developers, package can build
easily on all arch, stats are always flawed, Pentium bug in computation,
etc, etc)

--
Benoît Sibaud
R&D Engineer - France Telecom


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