On Fri 03 Sep 2010 05:24 -0500, Christopher Brannon wrote: > Peter Lewis <[email protected]> writes: > > This just got me wondering - is there an ideal number of TUs that > > you want there to be? Should people just continue applying if they > > have the know-how and time, or else are there "enough" TUs at the > > moment? What's the feeling on that? > > Have a look at this thread from the forums: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250 > > More is better. The packages/TU ratio will decrease as the number of > TUs increases, and it will be more likely that a TU uses the packages he > or she maintains. > If you want to be a TU, find a sponsor and apply.
Such numbers and ratios are misleading, we have one TU maintaining over 800 packages, and that keeps growing. I think it was around 600 last year. Overall I'd say it's good to have more TUs though.
