And what is your Dries number?

We introduce the Dries number as a semi-serious concept of distance from Dries in the Drupal community, based on an analysis of drupal.org issue queues.
People who worked with Dries on an issue have a Dries number of 1. People who worked with them (but not with Dries) have a Dries number of 2, and so on.
The distribution of these numbers allows to determine serious indicators about the dynamics of the Drupal community, as well as finding people who act as "key links" from a sub-community to the Drupal community at large.
The concept is inspired from the Erdos number, popular among mathematicians.