{"id":260,"date":"2007-11-04T18:41:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2007-11-04T18:41:27","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:41:27","slug":"some-numbers-about-debians-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Some numbers about Debian&#8217;s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article on LWN.net about Gentoo: <a href=\"http:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/253875\/\">Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A commit analysis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was wondering how Debian compared, so I made some stats using the debian-devel-changes archives.<\/p>\n<p>First, the number of source uploads per quarter:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/quarter_uploads.png\"\/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s interesting to note that, while the number of packages in Debian increased a lot, the number of uploads basically stayed the same since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I wondered about the number of active developers in Debian. So I counted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of different email addresses in Changed-by<\/li>\n<li>The number of different keys used to sign uploads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/quarter_devs.png\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of active devs has been slightly decreasing over the past years.<\/li>\n<li>The difference between the number of different changed-bys and the number of different keys should be the number of sponsorees, if I understand everything correctly. It is increasing a lot, which probably means that we have a bandwidth problem at integrating new contributors. Hopefully the DM GR will help at reducing that gap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can provide the raw data on demand, if someone else want to work on this. There&#8217;s probably a lot of other interesting things to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article on LWN.net about Gentoo: Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A commit analysis I was wondering how Debian compared, so I made some stats using the debian-devel-changes archives. First, the number of source uploads per quarter: It&#8217;s interesting to note that, while the number of packages in Debian increased a lot, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetdebian","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}