Re: How many DDs are there?

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On 10/21/06, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org> wrote:
> 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.

This reference to votes confused me, that DD's are counted by votes.

> > 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.

I thought you meant that 1000 is the number that ever voted. Might I
ask what a quorum calculation is?

thanks...