Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:50:52 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How are [MAINTAINER] patches handled and why aren't PRs FIFO? Message-ID: <19896.4396.161941.282904@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20110427075436.70ae18ac@seibercom.net> References: <4DB7B237.7000603@marino.st> <BANLkTinoGufNYZmkFgQmwGR4RjBXWXcDTA@mail.gmail.com> <20110427075436.70ae18ac@seibercom.net>
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Jerry writes: > > Ha, i've submitted mine about two months ago and still no luck. > > Personally, I believe that the current system, if not partially > broken, is far from ideal. I would prefer to see a system where > each submitted PR is assigned a specific number (I believe it is > actually) and then assigned in numeric order to the next > available committer. Not all committers are created equal. Asking Joe-the-fonts- guru to work on Mary's network monitoring application is probably not productive. Keeping a centralized list of who/what pairs - more importantly, keeping it useful - is another job on someone's desk. Are you that someone? > I am sure that the old, "But they are all volunteers", or some > such tirade will erupt. Not a tirade, but ... guilty. > It must be remembered that those who submit items for approval > are also volunteers. They deserve at least as much respect as > those who are actively working on those submitted items. Am I correct you are asking for a (far) higher level of dedication from the committers than from those who submit changes? Consider the port that goes untouched (in spite of substantial upstream changes) for months or even years; someone picks up the torch, and the poor committer gets N-thousend lines of new features, security patches, and dependency changes dumped on them to be checked in ... how long was that? Do I think there are flaws in the current system? Sure. But as long as we're faced with this particular choice of evils - slow updating versus lowered quality - I vote "first, do no harm". Respectfully, Robert Huff
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