Hi, as you can read in my lightning talk at DebConf
http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_lightning/ I did some investigation on who is frequently posting on our mailing lists. I now created graphs until end of last year and write a short summary for those lists I regard worth a comment. I'm not CCed to all of this list so if you want to discuss something please keep me in CC. If you want to discuss the results in general just write to debian-project. All graphs and the code that was used to create the graphs are available at http://people.debian.org/~tille/liststats/ If you are interested in a mailing list which was not analysed, just tell me. I was running the scripts on those lists I personally had some interest and those with more than 1000 subscribers. I plan to clean up code and write some doc about it but this will not happen in the next couple of weeks. The graph for this specific list is ------- <start of mailing list specific part> ------ http://people.debian.org/~tille/liststats/authorstat_devel.pdf For me the most interesting thing in this graph is that most activists have a wave like profile. The activity increases and decreases at some point. We have lost some of the most active posters on the list and none of them has reached the activity of "the early years". I have no idea whether there is a reasonable interpretation of this feature. Anyway I think I use the chance to thank all those activists from the years before 2000 because without their effort we would probably not be where we are. Their work made Debian attractive enough for many others who took over now (at least the posting on the mailing list job ;-)). Kind regards Andreas -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
