On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:15:04PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > I think everyone who has more than few tens of packages packages under his > belt should seriously consider finding someone else to take care of the extra > ones and possibly use the time freed by that to get to know the remaining > packages better unless it's taken by something else. I think that it is wrong, the number of packages is a bad metric for the work load and need to specialization. Speaking for myself, I have about 66 or so package that I maintain or for which I am a comaintainer doing most of the work recently. However, among those packages 12 or so really take time (some of these taking a huge amount, especially with collaboration with upstream), among the others something like 10 packages with medium load (like 2 hours a year), and 44 with a low load (along 1 hour in 3 years), most of them with inactive or dead upstream. I don't count the time needed to have first a good package (something like the first 6 months), and the time needed to do old EPEL branches, which was an investment done only once. Now I agree with the whole idea, it is better to spread the load, but a better metric than the number of packages would be something like the bugs not handled. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
