| IZh | I'm just studying optimal developers/QA ratio in similar projects. Wiki says that Canonical currently is about 550 people. But how many of them are QA and testers? 30%, 50%, 70%?.. | 06:00 |
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| tsimonq2 | IZh: A lot of Ubuntu community members aren't Canonical employees :) | 06:01 |
| IZh | tsimonq2: Wiki says that there are 142 community testers | 06:02 |
| IZh | :-) | 06:02 |
| tsimonq2 | IZh: Some people on this list work for Canonical: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-testing/+members | 06:02 |
| IZh | Just curious how many people needed to keep such a project in shape. :-) | 06:03 |
| tsimonq2 | From what I can tell, the stats aren't 100% clear for Ubuntu | 06:04 |
| tsimonq2 | Lots of people do Quality-related things in their daily uploads | 06:04 |
| tsimonq2 | I can guarantee not all of them are on that list | 06:04 |
| tsimonq2 | And vice versa, not all QA people are "Ubuntu Developers" | 06:04 |
| IZh | E.g. SUSE has about 1000 people, and RH is about 8000, but its areas of interest is bigger than simply RHEL/Fedora. | 06:04 |
| tsimonq2 | Sure | 06:05 |
| tsimonq2 | But also keep in mind that Canonical has other QA teams besides Ubuntu | 06:05 |
| IZh | Hmm... | 06:05 |
| tsimonq2 | Canonical is a small company compared to them | 06:05 |
| tsimonq2 | I think 700 is the right number for how many employees Canonical has... | 06:06 |
| tsimonq2 | But yeah | 06:06 |
| tsimonq2 | IZh: It's going to be hard to find all of them ;) | 06:06 |
| IZh | I don't need exact number. :-) Just an order of magnitude. :-) Want to know, e.g. if you have 1000 packages in distro, then how many QA/testers do you need to ship stable product. :-) | 06:07 |
| tsimonq2 | IZh: The numbers are going to be muddy anyways because we pull a *lot* from Debian | 06:11 |
| IZh | tsimonq2: Surely, but I suppose you are testing what you are pullinh | 06:13 |
| IZh | ;-) | 06:13 |
| tsimonq2 | True. | 06:14 |
| tsimonq2 | Not always, though. :P >__> | 06:14 |
| IZh | :-)) | 06:14 |
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