From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 22 10:48:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73BC616A423; Mon, 22 May 2006 10:48:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (it.buh.tecnik93.com [81.196.204.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DAFE43D45; Mon, 22 May 2006 10:48:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@FreeBSD.org) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B0517660; Mon, 22 May 2006 13:48:37 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:48:37 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu To: Marian Hettwer Message-ID: <20060522134837.0b88d705@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <447195E3.4000003@kernel32.de> References: <4471361B.5060208@freebsd.org> <20060521231657.O6063@abigail.angeltread.org> <44714FBB.4000603@samsco.org> <44718700.2060102@kernel32.de> <20060522133424.3087acfc@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <447195E3.4000003@kernel32.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_A28mgaAKj2kX7rmVPRnBcVV; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: Scott Long , FreeBSD Stable , Casavant , freebsd security , Colin Percival , Brent Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Survey X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:48:39 -0000 --Sig_A28mgaAKj2kX7rmVPRnBcVV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:47 +0200 Marian Hettwer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > Hi Ion, >=20 > Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: >=20 > >>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? > >=20 > >=20 > > With the maintainers/commiters/physical_resources we have now this is > > impossible. > That's what I guessed... And it's not only HR lack problem, we would need more hardware for the package building cluster too. =20 > > 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... >=20 > >=20 > >>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 :) IMO this could work only with some funding from interested companies. Maybe that could be an idea for a survey. > > There are ~4300 unmaintained ports. Maybe you could start maintaining > > some of them _now_ ? > >=20 > I'll have a look into my ports tree. Let me guess, ports which are have > the maintainer ports@freebsd.org are unmaintained? Yup. Just ' cd /usr/ports/ ; make search key=3Dports@FreeBSD.org ' --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" BOFH excuse #324: Your packets were eaten by the terminator --Sig_A28mgaAKj2kX7rmVPRnBcVV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEcZcFBX6fi0k6KXsRAp0lAKCN+mEVZYwdMNGiiYGSrGuvHpxt2QCgtZTH lwqGJK9FqXeSVKtkWrmiDBA= =kv5w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_A28mgaAKj2kX7rmVPRnBcVV--