2012/1/14 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johan...@gmail.com>: > 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. > > As you mentioned that it took you around 30 minutes to fix one bug on > average and I know for a fact that it takes me on average around 30 minutes > to migrate legacy sysv init which is where that number initially comes from > since the steps are similar in that regard as in. > [snip] > > Now 60(minutes)×4(guestimated available free hours)÷30( guestimated time it > takes to fix) = 8 which means you as an individual can cover fixing bugs for > 8 components per day which is the *worst case* scenario as in each day all > of the 8 components receive one bug report but in more general terms I think > it's safe to assume you can afford spending half an hour on average per day > per individual component if you maintain 8 components in general maintenance > tasks for those components.
I'm not disagreeing with 30 minutes per bug - just your guesstimate of one bug per package per day. Low maintenance packages are more like one bug per package per year. -- Iain. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
