On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:03:32 +0000
"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/14/2012 12:10 PM, Iain Arnell wrote:
> Then you can't blindly work the averages and apply hard limits. Just
> because some packages are high maintenance, doesn't mean that can't
> cope with dozens of low maintenance packages.
>
That hard limit is based on an guestimated time it takes to fix a
single bug from a guestimated free time an individual has to do so.
...snip...
I think the time it takes to fix a bug varies so widely that there is
no way to guestimate any 'average'. Some variables:
* How good/stable the package is.
* How active/good upstream is.
* How complex the package is/what it does.
* How many other packages it depends on where bugs may appear in
interactions.
I wouldn't personally even try and guess how long an 'average' bug take
me to fix. There's really no average.
What I'm trying to say here is that there is a magic number ( it
might be 8 it might be more but most likely it's less ) to how many
packages single individual can properly and reliably maintain in the
distribution.
I disagree there is any magic number here.
I think people who feel overloaded or unable to process the bugs they
are responsable for should look for interested co-maintainers to help
them.
kevin