On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 05:36:37PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/15/06, Alexander Schmehl <tolimar@debian.org> wrote: > >Hi! > > > >* Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> [061015 15:46]: > > > >> I'm very curious to know how many Debian Developers are there today. > >> Is there anyone keeping record? Sarge had about 1,200 IIRC. > > > >That's not easy to answer, since many packages are maintained by a team > >(e.g. x.org is maintained by the "x strike force"), > >and no one ever tried to count them. A rough estimation would be: > > > >$ grep "Maintainer: " > >/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources|sort -u|wc -l > >1783 > > I suppose that it would be easy to know if one starts from Sarge's > count, subtracts those who have resigned and adding new DDs (those > with archive rights). Where could one find such information? Hi TL, There are total number of @debian.org addresses (the Max)(M) and then there are the total number of active DD's(A) and then there are those that have been active in Etch(B) where M > A > B. There is also the issue of non-DD contributers(Debian maintainers, translators). While they are not DD's, they 'contribute' to Debian's success. It was also recently pointed out that a select few join as DD's , add one package and then become more or less inactive excecpt for bug reports on that one package vs. those who help out with more things (team maintainership, translations, Debconf event work, become AM's,...). cheers, Kev ps. just out of curiosity your name seems 'tibetan', if so, have you tried the bhutanese DzonghaLinux cd which uses tibetan. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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