Frans Jessop wrote: > First, as the announcement just came a few days ago some are ignoring > their > bugs for months. If a team was on the project that is less likely to > happen.
Hmm this already happens today with packages who *are* maintained by teams. > Second, collaboration on ideas for individual packages, by those who are > directly involved with the package, can occur making the future of the > package better. Hmm might be true for really big packages. > Third, Instead of always having the hard process of trying to get someone > to adopt will go away for team members can take over. > > Fourth, MIA's will not be as big a problem. The problem is, that not every tiny little package requires a team to maintain it. And the big packages. like kernel, xorg, kde, ... already are maintained by teams. > Fifth, more heads on a package are better than one > > Sixth, those applying to be a DD will have worked along side a Developer > who will better see �how this one contributes and fixes bugs.� But others can't be sure, that *all* New Maintainers meet the same requirements and standards. Some NM might be lucky to find a DD who is rather sloppy and might become a DD without much effort while others have to work much harder (and learn much more) to become a DD. > Seventh, It will increase teamwork. :) > > Now for my hypothetical situation: > > Future A: Don't forget, that becoming a DD today takes at least a year -- and the average DD contributes ~7years before leaving the project -- I don't think that we will see 10.000 DDs in the near future. But what's more important: I don't see a problem with *too much* packages, since unused packages sooner or later disappear from the archive. > > Future B. Again, I think teams are not allways necessary, espeacially when we speak about small packages. On the other side the big ones are usually already maintained by teams. But I agree that more teams in general would be a good idea since it happens quite often that a bug gets not fixed because the only maintainer is on vacation. Kind regards Bastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]