>> Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Bugs could get fixed sooner since more people are working on the > package. This would help us meeting our release goals.
The Mythical Man Month, of which Debian is exemplary[0]. "Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow", of which Debian is also exemplary, is a another, prettier, way of saying "men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers *with no communication among them*". It doesn't mean "throw more people at a problem and it will get solved faster". Your idea is practicable iff the group of maintainers actually communicate with each other, that is, the package is actually jointly maintained. Let me take two of my own packages as an example: * wmaker. It's not a complex package, but it operates under several different conditions (or enviroments) which are different enough from each other that makes it imposible for me to gain expertise in all of them (IOW, I don't use wmaker with GNOME, and it's very time consuming for me to try to figure out ways of reproducing bugs under those conditions, given the *absolutely* *wonderful* and *marvelous* documentation GNOME and its packages have) * celestia. Simple. Very limited scope. Not many configuration options. Would I like to find a co-maintainer for wmaker? Yes. Celestia? No. My criteria for considering co-maintainership is simple: "Can I cover all the possible ways of using this package myself?" [0] We never finished that conversation at Linux Tag. -- Marcelo | This signature was automatically generated with [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Signify v1.07. For this and other cool products, | check out http://www.debian.org/