On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:02:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Ian Murdock wrote: > >What does that mean exactly, "to talk to Debian"? The DPL is in > >the loop, plus a dozen or more Debian developers that work for the > >participating organizations. > > Which is to say, no one outside the partipating organisations is in the > loop? Given that it's a discussion body at present, it seems rather impossible to stay out of the loop if one participates. Ian, has anyone approached the DCC Alliance and been refused entry? > Isn't this a good opportunity for either the tech ctte or the Scud Team > to be involved, so the DPL doesn't have to put ridiculous amounts of > effort into avoiding the obvious conflict of interest? Some of them are already. > (I couldn't easily find anything saying who's in the "DCC", so these are > guesses, but I think the ordering is at least right: > > 100% of the DPL is involved in the "DCC" group, > 33% of the SPI board's involved in the "DCC" group, > 28% of the DPL team's involved in the "DCC" group, > 0% of the tech-ctte's involved in the "DCC" group > > I guess something like 2%-5% of the developer body as a whole is > involved in the "DCC"; I wouldn't like to hazard a guess at what > proportion of Debian's extended userbase use distros involved in it) For it to be meaningful, shouldn't we apply this same sort of analysis to Ubuntu, debian-edu, debian-med, Linspire, Xandros, Mepis, Knoppix, or any other customized Debian distribution? Once that is done, perhaps we can undertake some more informed speculation as to what phenomena correlate with what level of participation. > Hrm. leader@ cc'ed. It's unclear to me exactly what sort of reponse you're soliciting, but I did my best. -- G. Branden Robinson Debian Project Leader leader@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~branden/
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