Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:48:14 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle Message-ID: <20120118024814.GF509@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <CADWvR2iK2dTXda9dpPRDHt8tKQz720oQJLLnBmmDWu1nFvGoiA@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112211415580.19710@kozubik.com> <op.v78i3yxi34t2sn@tech304> <4F15C44F.1030208@freebsd.org> <1326836797.1669.234.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <4F16019F.2060300@FreeBSD.org> <1326843399.1669.249.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <4F160B99.1060001@FreeBSD.org> <CADWvR2jdeu6R%2BmX1n2Uz1WUBcZ=BKWSDB4nR-rEv_P4jAZg3HQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6rxgkvucnpjQOrL70TBqsitttQDPhqfxOr%2BB7QWmSe8JfL2Q@mail.gmail.com> <CADWvR2iK2dTXda9dpPRDHt8tKQz720oQJLLnBmmDWu1nFvGoiA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 01:41:53AM +0000 I heard the voice of Igor Mozolevsky, and lo! it spake thus: > > The problem, however, lies in the time between a patch is submitted > and is "picked up", if the latter ever occurs!.. That is where the > discouragement occurs. Quite. For instance, we're now well past the 3 year mark since I submitted docs/127908, which fixes 1 sentence in a manpage. So far, I can't see that anybody but me has ever looked at it. That doesn't serve to encourage me to nibble at anything substantial. (In fairness, I should note that I also maintain several ports, and so submit a steady trickle of PR's there. Almost none of them take more than a week from submission to application and closing, and it's fairly common for it to be less than 24 hours. I know the ports team carries a huge load with such things, but they're carrying it well.) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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