From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 26 15:41: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3825C37B6A5 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (deneb [128.130.111.2]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0QNege09013; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:40:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (pfeifer@localhost) by deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0QNefM20017; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:40:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) X-Authentication-Warning: deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at: pfeifer owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:40:41 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Will Andrews , Subject: Re: Policy problem In-Reply-To: <003701c087d8$1897ef70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > Take a look at the -stable or -current lists, and count the number of > I think it's a rather good idea to have Satoshi look after things. No objection at all. However, it is almost always a very bad idea to have only one person look after things. And the FreeBSD ports collection is no exception. Proof: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?responsible=asami > issues that arise because commiter A commited some code which breaks > code/features committed by commiter B. Take a look at the GNATS database, and count the number of PRs that have been assigned to Satoshi. Will, for example, would address some of them, but he is not allowed to. So, these PRs have remained open without any progress for months, even years. > Let's leave well enough alone, eh? No. Not as long as even PRs with patches like http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8063 or http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15495 get assigned to Satoshi and then ignored for *years*. Gerald PS(important note): I am not complaining about Satoshi, who has been and still is contributing a lot; I am complaining about this exclusive rule. -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message