On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:27:59 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:25:47PM +0000, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> 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:
>
> Did you look only at Maintainer, or also at Uploaders? In the former
> case (Maintainer only), you'll probably end up interpreting the
> evolution from individual maintenance to team maintenance as a decrease
> in the available people power, incorrectly imo.
It also looks at uploaders, and filters out debian lists. The script I
used was:
for dist in {0.93R6,1.{1,2,3.1},2.{0,1,2},3.{0,1},4.0,5.0,6.0.6,7.0} ; do
echo $dist
(cat Packages*-${dist}; echo; cat Sources*-${dist}) | \
grep-dctrl . -sUploaders,Maintainer | \
sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' | cut -f2 -d: | \
sed -e 's/\(".*\),\(.*"\)/\1\2/g'| \
sed -e 's/,/\n/g' | sort -u | \
grep -v 'lists.*debian.org' > maints-${dist}
done
I also grepped through the debian-devel-changes list[1] to find unique
Changed-By entries, and it suggests the number of monthly active
maintainers has been kept relatively steady, although much more variable
in recent cycles. Yearly data suggests the same.
I have uploaded to [2] an ods file with the numbers.
[1] zgrep '^Changed-By' $src | sort -u > changed.${date} # done in a loop
[2] http://people.debian.org/~fsateler/activity.ods
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