Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:59:40 +0200 From: Diego Depaoli <trebestie@gmail.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net> Subject: Re: status of FreeBSD ports you maintain as of 20090705 Message-ID: <83e5fb980908040459k2e533ab4o2d23b229f98b8ace@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090801114833.GA23826@lonesome.com> References: <20090706014719.GG11993@lonesome.com> <070151759cb2aacd36a14eb4b318a435@xs4all.nl> <20090716181711.GC90253@comcast.net> <36957fedc04d840595162bb026a8ec62@xs4all.nl> <20090801114833.GA23826@lonesome.com>
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2009/8/1 Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 07:37:27PM +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote: >> I now know more than ever why I switched to OpenBSD. >> FreeBSD people no longer seem to care about broken ports, or making peop= le >> who submit broken patches maintainers, or even replying to my messages. [snip] > To summarize: my own view is that we don't want bad patches or bad update= s > to be committed; but our committers are human, too. =A0It's worth repeati= ng > that we rely on our committers to be responsible for verifying that the > changes that they're committing are correct and useful; but, they're > volunteers as well, so we have to rely on a combination of constructive > criticism and encouragement to try to improve things. There are too many ports and too few people who care them. IMHO the options are: - decrease the number of ports - increase the number of volunteers/committers/testers... - switch to a multi-level solution (e.g. Archlinux). Regards --=20 Diego Depaoli
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