Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > For instance, I was gratified to see the statistics for debian-legal, > because they support my position that the discussion there is being DoSed by > non-DDs who are trying to use it as a forum to persuade Debian that their > interpretation of the DFSG is the correct one.
That might be true, but I don't see how it follows from the statistics posted. There are 5 people listed in the -legal top 10 who are not DDs now and of those: Andrew Suffield stopped posting when he was still a DD IIRC; and Nathanael Nerode mostly stopped posting around the same time he was rejected from NM by http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/04/msg00010.html overriding http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2006/06/msg00023.html So that leaves 3 completely non-developer participants as far as I know. The surges by Branden Robinson (2003 - literally off the scale) and Raul Miller (2004) seem almost as strongly correlated with the list's slow-down as any of the non-DD surges (all in 2004?). I suggest that the most probable interpretation is that the list probably got badly off-topic in 2003-2004. FDL or editorial changes, perhaps? Comment about "activists" or non-DDs isn't really supported by the data presented here. [...] > BTW, as near as I can tell the reports only show the figures for the top-ten > all-time posters on each list. So there are probably a number of lists > where the top poster within a single year isn't represented at all - what > you're really capturing here is "when have the most active contributors to > each mailing list been the most active", which isn't a very good proxy at > all for "what is the list activity over time". Amen. In another post, Andreas called it "a quick and dirty helper for a talks of mine at DebConf and I never thought that it became that popular". It isn't that popular, but spamming N debian lists with the graphs does tend to attract attention! Regards, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org