Re: Q: number of project members
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:56:56AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > https://www.debian.org/intro/about.en.html#who describes "Debian is produced
> > by almost a thousand active developers spread around the world who volunteer
> > in their spare time." but how do we count this?
>
> We don't, the website hard-codes that number and it hasn't been
> updated since 2002.
>
> Presumably it means developers in the "DDs" or Debian members sense,
> so it isn't counting Debian contributors either:
>
> https://contributors.debian.org/
These numbers are so inaccurate it's not really worth it to bother:
should a DD who hasn't made an upload in ten years be counted? Should a
non-DD non-DM contributor who maintains 86 packages for one and half
decades? Then, don't forget that a good part of the credit should go to
upstreams who actually wrote the software. And so on.
Thus, saying that Debian is produced "by almost a thousand active
developers" is the most accurate figure we can honestly give.
Meow!
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