Re: Number of Maintainers
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 02:51:31PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: What happens with a public key if a maintainer orphans all his/her packages and leaves the project? Is it kept in the keyring or is it removed? If it isn't removed the numbers would be too high, IMO. If a maintainer leaves the project and we (=new-maintainer) notice this we close his accounts and remove his pgp trace. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / A mathematician is a machine / / for converting coffee into theorems / pgpKtIR2SRv6n.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Number of Maintainers
On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Brian Bassett wrote: After both Manoj Srivastava and Bob Hilliard pointed out to me the faults in using the Maintainers file for determining the number of maintainers, I have decided to use the Debian PGP keyring. After deleting duplicate keys, the keyring says that there are 313 developers, making Q 8.85 and K 5. Note, that Tim Sailer and I are working on a Developer DB, a SQL db where every Debian developer (maintainers and non-maintainers) are listed. Once this DB is set up, you can use this to calculate the exact number of developers. Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Number of Maintainers
Brian Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After both Manoj Srivastava and Bob Hilliard pointed out to me the faults in using the Maintainers file for determining the number of maintainers, I have decided to use the Debian PGP keyring. After deleting duplicate keys, the keyring says that there are 313 developers, making Q 8.85 and K 5. Brian You know what would be cool - if the www.debian.org homepage had a running count of the number of maintainers! That's Debian's biggest selling point, as far as I'm concerned. Cheers, - Jim pgpKezikvA920.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Number of Maintainers
On 9 Apr 1998, Jim Pick wrote: Brian Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After both Manoj Srivastava and Bob Hilliard pointed out to me the faults in using the Maintainers file for determining the number of maintainers, I have decided to use the Debian PGP keyring. After deleting duplicate keys, the keyring says that there are 313 developers, making Q 8.85 and K 5. Brian You know what would be cool - if the www.debian.org homepage had a running count of the number of maintainers! That's Debian's biggest selling point, as far as I'm concerned. What happens with a public key if a maintainer orphans all his/her packages and leaves the project? Is it kept in the keyring or is it removed? If it isn't removed the numbers would be too high, IMO. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Number of Maintainers
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On 9 Apr 1998, Jim Pick wrote: Brian Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After both Manoj Srivastava and Bob Hilliard pointed out to me the faults in using the Maintainers file for determining the number of maintainers, I have decided to use the Debian PGP keyring. After deleting duplicate keys, the keyring says that there are 313 developers, making Q 8.85 and K 5. Brian You know what would be cool - if the www.debian.org homepage had a running count of the number of maintainers! That's Debian's biggest selling point, as far as I'm concerned. What happens with a public key if a maintainer orphans all his/her packages and leaves the project? Is it kept in the keyring or is it removed? If it isn't removed the numbers would be too high, IMO. But it also leaves out testers, who provide no pgp keys. So the number could be too low ;-) Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Number of Maintainers
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:12:58AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: What happens with a public key if a maintainer orphans all his/her packages and leaves the project? Is it kept in the keyring or is it removed? If it isn't removed the numbers would be too high, IMO. If we notice this we remove the key from the keyring. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only / / proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
