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From: Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl>
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Subject: Re: ACTION REQUIRED - Unstaged Ports being DEPRECATED on June
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On Mon, 12 May 2014, John Marino wrote:

> I commit PR patches that are 6 to 18 months old fairly frequently.
> There is obviously a huge backlog but many PRs are processed daily.  The
> PRs that aren't getting processed quickly are "[NEW PORT]" PRs (and
> apparently anything mentioning fuse-fs for some reason).  A staging PR
> is going to jump the line; it has a higher priority.
>
> Why would you even entertain the idea that a staging PR will fall
> between the cracks?

Perhaps the better question is: what are the factors that will make
committers shy away from a PR, even if it's summary contains stage? [1]
Maybe we (maintainers) can do better?

[1]
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=ports&severity=&priority=&class=maintainer-update&state=open&sort=none&text=&responsible=&multitext=stage&originator=&release=>
--
Melvyn