On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:18:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> As I agree with Christian that the most important factor is our ability
> to attract contributors, I've tried to gather data about the number of
> people that decide to join Debian per year. The easiest data to found
> was those about DDs and DMs; they are not a full picture of our
> contributors community (no translators, no project members on Alioth,
> etc.), but they're probably correlated significantly with it.
Another way to look at it is the number of maintainers, as recorded in
the Packages and Sources files. I've done a bit of scripting and came
with these numbers:
Version Date Maint Delta Delta Change /
Years Maint year
0.93R6 09/10/1995 41
1.1 17/06/1996 108 0.69 67 97
1.2 12/12/1996 147 0.49 39 80
1.3.1 05/06/1997 180 0.48 33 69
2 24/07/1998 253 1.13 73 64
2.1 09/03/1999 357 0.62 104 166
2.2 15/08/2000 526 1.44 169 117
3 19/07/2002 994 1.93 468 243
3.1 06/06/2005 1552 2.88 558 193
4 08/04/2007 1859 1.84 307 167
5 14/02/2009 2231 1.86 372 200
6.0.6 06/02/2011 2678 1.98 447 226
7~ 21/10/2012 2958 1.71 280 164
Unfortunately, this method doesn't account for MIA maintainers whose
packages have not been orphaned, so it may overstate actual activity.
It looks like some steam has been lost this release cycle, but that it is
not the trend of other recent cycles.
Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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