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Re: Question to Stefano, Steve and Luk about the organisation into packaging teams.



On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:31:34AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
>> existing maintainers to join it. In the end I don't have a problem
>> if this team is somewhat bigger. What I think is valueable about such a
>> team is the effects that come from beeing part of a team and beeing
>> responsible. 
>
>Given the workload on many core packages, I think it's not really
>reasonable to expect to have a big team responsible of many packages.
>I rather like the fact that we have smaller teams each dedicated to
>very few core packages. People can move from teams to teams and be part of
>multiple teams if needed.
>
>You can't have quality if you don't have 2-3 volunteers feeling personaly
>responsible for a given package.

Absolutely. Beyond a certain size, a team is much more likely to fall
back to "somebody else will do it".

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