Organizational Structure: Developers

  • 1,000 developers who maintain little pieces of the distro in little pieces. All participants are unpaid. Debian does not pay developers to work on Debian -- and won't.

  • Open admission into the project (anyone can join) following that each new developer fulfill the following criteria:

    • Active in community

    • Verified Identity

    • Knowledge of policy and Free Software philosophy

    • Demonstrated skills