Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 18:32:52 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: gnats database Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005061830070.12018-100000@manatee.mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0005061942080.5543-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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On Sat, 6 May 2000, Steve Price wrote: > On Sat, 6 May 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > # I just browsed through the PR database for the ports category. It looks > # like very few of the submissions within the last year or so have been > # resolved; most are in an open state. > > Being one of the people who has committed a couple of them myself > and also being the GNATS administrator I can say that this is > not quite true. This time last year we had ~1000 less ports than > we do today. If you consider (and this is probably way low) that > 500 of those ports came from PRs and consider that there are 390 > open ports PRs right now and not all of those are for new ports, > then one can only conclude that 'more' of the new port submissions > in the last year have been committed than not. > > # When submitting a new port, does one need to send in many follow ups in > # order to be noticed? > > No, not necessarily. It does help sometimes help to jog our memories > but the GNATS database is ever-present. The number one reason why > you see more new port submissions in the PR database than other > ports-related requests is because they take more effort to commit. > Oftentimes they take a considerable amount of massaging before they > can be committed. A two-line, two-file change to update to a new > version submitted by a port's maintainer is *much* easier. > > Don't fret. Someone will get to them, it just takes a little while > sometimes before someone (who does it just for fun) finds the time > and energy to actually do the deed. We aren't deliberately ignoring > them and we do value the effort spent in doing the initial port and > submitting a problem report. However, most of us have lives outside > of FreeBSD that requires us to do things like cook dinner for, watch, > play with, and otherwise entertain a gaggle of kids while our wives > are off having fun. Oops there's the doorbell. Two of my nieces > and one nephew are here to eat, play, and spend the night. Off I > go. :-) > > -steve > > PS: For anyone who's counting I have three daughters of my own, > so I get to enjoy an evening/night with 6 kids. > I apologize for my impatience. Someone else pointed out that one must specifically choose to look at the closed reports, and my mistake was that I did not do so. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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