On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:25:38PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > 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. One of whom is the single largest contributor to debian-legal by volume for the past three years, which is enough to catapult him to the all-time top ten contributors on a mailing list that's been in existence for over a decade and which used to have much broader participation on the part of Debian developers. And who outpaces by about a factor of two the second greatest contributor over the last two years (out of the set of largest all-time posters). > 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. I suggest that Francesco Poli's repeated license analyses that include the phrase "IMHO this isn't DFSG-free but the ftpmasters will probably accept it anyway" are what's badly off-topic. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org