Re: How many DDs are there?
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:18:26 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> said:
> 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?
Firstly: look at the URL cited: http://vote.debian.org/, and
go look at votes held recently. All of them have a Quorum calculation
section, which has the informatiojn you want.
Second, if you really want ot know the details of the quorum
calculation process, you need to read
http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
manoj
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