From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 17 11:55:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6EFA1065678 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:55:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scheidell@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net [216.134.223.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8010A8FC12 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (unknown [10.71.0.54]) by mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BCE4D23C2C for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:55:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: SpammerTrap(r) VPS-1500 2.18 at mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net Received: from USBCTDC001.secnap.com (unknown [10.70.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.secnap.com.ionspam.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A902D23C04 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:55:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from USBCTMX001.secnap.com (::ffff:10.70.1.129) by USBCTDC001.secnap.com (::ffff:10.70.1.1) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.0.722.0; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:55:00 -0400 Message-ID: <50055293.3010002@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:54:59 -0400 From: Michael Scheidell Organization: SECNAP Network Security Corp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <50017C97.3050200@filez.com> <20120714192119.GA61563@vniz.net> <5001CB97.6070205@filez.com> <50054F6E.9040002@filez.com> In-Reply-To: <50054F6E.9040002@filez.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: maintainer timeout for FreeBSD commiters X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:55:08 -0000 On 7/17/12 7:41 AM, Radim Kolar wrote: > >> We *are* making progress in cutting through the backlog though. > ports have about 900 open PR. Why it does not have more port > commiters? Its difficult to recruit new person? The answer to that is very complex. And, for each PR, maybe a different answer. for some, there is no maintainer (owned by ports@), you are more than welcome to look through the list of ports owned by port@ and adopt a couple hundred of them. For some, the submitter reported a problem, some problems are upstream, some the submitter. For some, the attached patch does not follow FreeBSD ports guidelines, and until (someone) rewrites it, it just sites. some are suspended waiting on other pr's. So, for each of those open pr's, there is, most likely, different answers. I have (4 or 5?) pr's open, waiting on feedback from submitters or maintainers. If a patch was attached, and the port builds, ant it times out, I'll commit it. So, you want to help? adopt a couple hundreds ports, learn the system, make good patches, and in doing so, you will quickly find out what a lot of these are just sitting there. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Michael Scheidell, CTO >*| * SECNAP Network Security Corporation d: +1.561.948.2259 w: http://people.freebsd.org/~scheidell