On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:29:21 +0000, "Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hubert Chan wrote: >> I think that if we add more developers, the amount of work will >> increase faster. > I am not sure that it scales that way. One must respect those who > disagree, but them I ask a question: If Debian had ten thousand > Developers, do you think that the Project could get any useful work > done at all? Yes, the Project would get useful work done. The Project would even get more useful work done than it does right now. But there will, eventually, be much more orphaned packages than there are now, as people lose interest, or get overloaded, or resign, etc. I was not saying that adding new developers increases overhead and makes everyone less efficient. The point I was trying to make is that adding new developers does not necessarily directly affect, say, the number of orphaned packages. Developers generally bring their own work into Debian, rather than taking over someone else's (orphaned) work. And most people (myself included) have a bad habit of taking on more work than they can handle. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
