[06:00] <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%?..
[06:01] <tsimonq2> IZh: A lot of Ubuntu community members aren't Canonical employees :)
[06:02] <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
[06:03] <IZh> Just curious how many people needed to keep such a project in shape. :-)
[06:04] <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.
[06:05] <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
[06:06] <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 ;)
[06:07] <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. :-)
[06:11] <tsimonq2> IZh: The numbers are going to be muddy anyways because we pull a *lot* from Debian
[06:13] <IZh> tsimonq2: Surely, but I suppose you are testing what you are pullinh
[06:13] <IZh> ;-)
[06:14] <tsimonq2> True.
[06:14] <tsimonq2> Not always, though. :P >__>
[06:14] <IZh> :-))