On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:09:53AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 08:02:11PM +0300, Boris Pek wrote: > > First, let's see how the number of active developers and population are > > really related. The correlation coefficients are: > > 0.10 (2013), 0.09 (2012), 0.09 (2011), 0.08 (2010). > > Very low, unfortunately. But it was predictable... > > And going lower too. Yeah. To be expected; we don't remove members as easily as we gain them (which is fine, IMHO), so as the project ages and people fall idle, it "brings down" the numbers, without reducing the set of active people doing good work too much :) > > > The correlation coefficients between the number of active developers and GDP: > > 0.60 (2013), 0.60 (2012). Hey, it looks much better! > So... if we want more Debian developers, try to increase a countries GDP and don't > bother with its population; perhaps. I wonder what causes this. > > Thanks, I found it interesting in any case. > > - Craig > > -- > Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au > Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org > GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 20130811000953.GA22634@enc.com.au">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 20130811000953.GA22634@enc.com.au > -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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