>>"Patrick" == Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> My question is, how can I get the current development status Patrick> of each, e.g. number of official developers of each and how Patrick> did the number increase or decrease in the last years; how Patrick> many packages currently in each distribution and how much Patrick> user base of each? Looking at the vote.debian.org pages, in 1999 there were 347 developers, right now there are 939. And I think that looking at the Packages files for various versions shall tell you how many packages there were. Looking at the debian-history document, and looking at the current woody Packages files, we have: *sid 9038 packages * woody is not yet released 939 developers 8499 packages * potato is Debian 2.2 15 Aug 2000 ~450 developers ~3900 packages * slink is Debian 2.1 09 Mar 1999 347 developers ~2250 packages * hamm is Debian 2.0 Jul 1998 347 developers ~1500 packages * bo is Debian 1.3 Jul 1997 200 developers 974 packages * rex is Debian 1.2 Dec 1996 120 developers 848 packages * buzz is Debian 1.1 Jun 1996 ~ 80-100 developers 474 packages Debian 0.93R6 Nov 1995 60 developers Debian 0.93R5 Mar 1995 Debian 0.91 Jan 1994 several dozen developers manoj who joined between 0.93R5 and 0.93R6 -- So we get to my point. Surely people around here read things that aren't on the *Officially Sanctioned Cyberpunk Reading List*. Surely we don't (any of us) really believe that there is some big, deep political and philosophical message in all this, do we? So if this `cyberpunk' thing is just a term of convenience, how can somebody sell out? If cyberpunk is just a word we use to describe a particular style and imagery in sf, how can it be dead? Where are the profound statements that the `Movement' is or was trying to make? I think most of us are interested in examining and discussing literary (and musical) works that possess a certain stylistic excellence and perhaps a rather extreme perspective; this is what CP is all about, no? Maybe there should be a newsgroup like, say, alt.postmodern or somthing. Something less restrictive in scope than alt.cyberpunk. Jeff G. Bone Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]