There has been a WaT (Where are They) run recently which resulted in several resignations by inactive people and deletions of some accounts that weren't active. This might explain the sudden drop; the reality is that these people weren't really active so this isn't as bad as it sounds. The absolute number of voters actually went up since the past two years.
Posted Apr 17, 2010 20:24 UTC (Sat) by kragil (subscriber, #34373)
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So the most famous DD is no DD anymore? (Hint: The first African in space)
number of DD's is falling?
Posted Apr 18, 2010 11:20 UTC (Sun) by ana (subscriber, #41598)
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He is and he has voted.
number of DD's is falling?
Posted Apr 19, 2010 6:06 UTC (Mon) by amacater (subscriber, #790)
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marks - Mark Shuttleworth - at about number 242 on the list of voters :)
There have been resignations at various points over the last year as inactive developers were pinged - but there have also been new maintainers and developers added. Thanks are due to sam93 for his hard work not just as DPL but over many years. Good luck, zack - with 1000 odd developers spread worldwide, it's a logistics challenge to rival an IBM :)