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.
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Pat