From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 22 10:43:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E31916A421; Mon, 22 May 2006 10:43:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from crivens.terrorteam.de (crivens.terrorteam.de [81.169.171.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5660D43D45; Mon, 22 May 2006 10:43:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crivens.terrorteam.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA04D3F39; Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixoid.de Received: from crivens.terrorteam.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (crivens.unixoid.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6CfEFdTENtU2; Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.38.0.12] (unknown [213.238.63.253]) by crivens.terrorteam.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF6D3F29; Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <447195E3.4000003@kernel32.de> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:47 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ion-Mihai \"IOnut\" Tetcu" References: <4471361B.5060208@freebsd.org> <20060521231657.O6063@abigail.angeltread.org> <44714FBB.4000603@samsco.org> <44718700.2060102@kernel32.de> <20060522133424.3087acfc@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20060522133424.3087acfc@it.buh.tecnik93.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd security , FreeBSD Stable , Brent Casavant , Colin Percival Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Survey X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:43:49 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ion, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: >>I have to agree on that statement. I would love to see branched ports. >>This can get very important on servers, were you don't want to have >>major upgrades, but only security updates. >>I guess it's a question of manpower, hm? > > > With the maintainers/commiters/physical_resources we have now this is > impossible. That's what I guessed... > Take a look at pav@'s PR stats page: http://www.oook.cz/bsd/prstats/ > There are ~1000 new ports PRs per month. The PT Team has managed to > close about the same number per month (fewer during the freeze, of > course). > Currently there are 551 open PRs. 238 in feedback state, etc. I see... > > >>Would a survey help? As in ask the ports team and FreeBSD >>administrators? Maybe some will start to become port maintainer too, >>just to support the increased work on ports due to branching them... >>I would :) > > > There are ~4300 unmaintained ports. Maybe you could start maintaining > some of them _now_ ? > I'll have a look into my ports tree. Let me guess, ports which are have the maintainer ports@freebsd.org are unmaintained? regards, Marian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEcZXhgAq87Uq5FMsRAnqFAJ4t0fO+uQTk/XRDFvTcA9ZLKuy6PACguig5 qAKibfTgwhzrVojGkHPyvpk= =6eKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----