Second request.

Posted Apr 17, 2021 20:13 UTC (Sat) by mhw (guest, #13931)
In reply to: Second request. by corbet
Parent article: Kicking off the GNU Assembly

Hi Jonathan,

For the record, I was not objecting to the posting of the 6% number. My objection was the broken-record experience of posting it over and over and over and over again.

It's possible that I've repeated myself too many times on a few of my points. It's hard for me to judge that objectively; I'm not sure that anyone with an opinion on this issue can do so. There's been a lot of repetition of misinformation here as well, and I feel compelled to counter it, but I also acknowledge that at some point, someone has to be willing to let the other side have the last word.

However, I believe that my repeated use of "6%" is quite different. I've recently started using it as my preferred label for this minority faction, in the same way that the Occupy movement used the label "1%". I personally don't see what's wrong with that. I disagree that using that label is tantamount to repeating the same point over and over again.

Second request.

Posted Apr 18, 2021 15:32 UTC (Sun) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (1 responses)

You should probably update it to "the 7.7%" then: 30 are currently listed, out of, you say, 386 maintainers.

That's without getting into the question of how many of the 30, and how many of the 386, are active maintainers.

Second request.

Posted Apr 18, 2021 21:22 UTC (Sun) by mhw (guest, #13931) [Link]

Only 24 of them are GNU maintainers, so it's still 6%, or more precisely 6.2%.