From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 08:59:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 893F816A41F for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 08:59:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 134F543D45 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 08:59:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so1388499nzn for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 01:59:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mSC2INylU5joLwhkm7fqN7Q0fJgYKmFVfCnOnjc3ivemRxKs5BYTSm5rdXphu8eKJDDmiswcZf0/aagW5QkgpOqGobpHGIOkms6MOsGCH1c5/OqijvmNIgkLdUyyh4Eba9tg6ady2rS+DYIJKM3S6mkPNgxmu79HNEnokCOKg2Q= Received: by 10.64.24.20 with SMTP id 20mr2085687qbx; Tue, 23 May 2006 01:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.203.20 with HTTP; Tue, 23 May 2006 01:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 12:59:16 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" To: "Kris Kennaway" In-Reply-To: <20060523012528.GA8161@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060523012528.GA8161@xor.obsecurity.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Number of maintainers vs. number of ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 08:59:18 -0000 On 5/23/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:28:11PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On 5/22/06, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > >Just a quick notice: > > > > > >Ports 18 months ago: 10796 > > >Maintainers 18 months ago: ~535 > > > > > >Ports now: 14727 > > >Maintainers now: ~393 > > > > > > > Haha, there are some non-ASCII chars in INDEX, and I use > > UTF-8 locale, which made my search inaccurate. > > > > This is closer to the truth: > > > > Maintainers 18 months ago: ~1192 > > Maintainers now: ~1469 > > > > cut -f6 -d\| INDEX | tr A-Z a-z | sort -u | wc -l > > Nevertheless, I'd still like to see more maintaine{rs,d ports}. We > now have a nice document about "what it means to be a maintainer", so > I think we should start doing some outreach to bring new people in. We need to punish our most active submitters with commit bits on a more regular basis. That means less open pr's and submissions being dealt a lot faster. I was delighted to see most of my fixes/updates/additions being committed (not without corrections) in less than 48 hours when I was an additional contributor. That eased my work as a sysadmin, enriched my freebsd-on-all-of-my-desktops experience and encouraged me to devote more time to my work as a maintainer.