On 01/14/2012 10:44 AM, Iain Arnell wrote:
You've got to be kidding. In a little over three years, I've picked up more than 300 packages and only 81 bugs - most of which are from upstream release monitoring. I've got no problem at all keeping up with the work.
Nope no kidding with my example above and to point you out others are having difficulty's maintaining a single component with 300+ bugs on them ( like the kernel ).
Expecting a maximum of 4 hours of volunteering per day from an individual on average in the project is not that far off ( and by some that number might be considered to high ) but ofcourse you can twist that math as much as you like to suit the outcome you would like to see.
For example you can say I dont have a work and I dont have kids thus I should be allowed to maintain more packages but then you suddenly knock up a broad and land a job and the scenario becomes very much different...
I personally fail to see this "I maintain gazillion packages and I'm the best" mentality that some seem to carry which more often than not they poorly maintain those gazillion packages and it would not take more then a bus accident to leave the project in limbo...
I would think the projects goal here is to have more individuals maintaining the same package not one maintainer maintaining all the packages
How many co-maintainers do you have on those 300 packages you maintain and how much time on average did you spend on fixing one of those 81 bugs ( from report to build with fix )
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