On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:56:56AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > https://www.debian.org/intro/about.en.html#who describes "Debian is > > produced > > by almost a thousand active developers spread around the world who > > volunteer > > in their spare time." but how do we count this? > > We don't, the website hard-codes that number and it hasn't been > updated since 2002. > > Presumably it means developers in the "DDs" or Debian members sense, > so it isn't counting Debian contributors either: > > https://contributors.debian.org/
These numbers are so inaccurate it's not really worth it to bother: should a DD who hasn't made an upload in ten years be counted? Should a non-DD non-DM contributor who maintains 86 packages for one and half decades? Then, don't forget that a good part of the credit should go to upstreams who actually wrote the software. And so on. Thus, saying that Debian is produced "by almost a thousand active developers" is the most accurate figure we can honestly give. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Certified airhead; got the CT scan to prove that! ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
