On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:35:23PM +0200, Jerome wrote in <[email protected]>:
On 11/08/24 15:48 -0500, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:e) a top of 70 packages to maintain is a good limit for people, there is no sense people that maintains 500 packages. we call this single poing of failure.i beg to differ: $ mgarepo maintdb get|grep jquelin|wc -l 2505 i'm *really* updating those packages by myself, with the help of some scripts (i blogged about magpie, and also posted here). and i'm not aware of anyone really using perl for dev on mageia to object that i'm doing a bad job... now, kharec is joining me as perl stack maintainer, and i have an apprentice willing to join perl maintainance fun as well. so i guess it alleviates your spof argument...
I think Luis meant it more as a ball park figure rather than a hard limit. That is, people should only maintain as many packages as they can actually manage and not set themselves as maintainer for a package for reasons of seeing their name in print.
Also, in debian for example it is not easy to become a maintainer as all of the 'fun' packages are taken already. I don't think we are in such a luxorious position yet.
Cheers, Remco
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