Re: How many DDs are there?
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:15:46 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> said:
> On 10/17/06, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:46:50 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
>> <tshepang@gmail.com> said:
>>
>> > Hi, I'm very curious to know how many Debian Developers are there
>> > today. Is there anyone keeping record? Sarge had about 1,200
>> > IIRC.
>>
>> Officially, the number stands at 1000 today. Look at
>> http://vote.debian.org/ for votes, the current number over the
>> years has been recorded for each vote as it was taken.
> Is this the only easy automatic way to count them? It obviously
> excludes those who chose not to vote. What about those who left the
> project?
Don't look at the nuimber of people who voted. Look instead to
the quorum calculation, where the official number of DD's is used;
which is 1000.
We have never had more than 600 people vote. ever. And recent
votes have had around 300 -- so lots of people di not exercise their
franchise.
manoj
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