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by dijit 1467 days ago
No person manages more than 250 packages (and he's a RH employee).

There's more than a hundred package maintainers (I'm not sure exactly how many), but the median is about 50 packages.

Do you think people can't keep up with the updates for 50 packages?

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I think I don't want "more than a hundred" additional points of trust, especially if they're trying to audit 50+ projects with various levels of familiarity each. And no, I don't believe one person can give a real audit to 50 packages each release even if was their actual job.

To paraphrase, all "more than a hundred" of those people need to be lucky every time.