From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 05:46:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 92A2316A400 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 05:46:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao01.cox.net (eastrmmtao01.cox.net [68.230.240.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA9243D46 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 05:46:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([72.200.25.154]) by eastrmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060509054629.ZYQW17255.eastrmmtao01.cox.net@serene.no-ip.org> for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 01:46:29 -0400 Received: from serene.no-ip.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k495kPDV074731 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 00:46:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 00:46:20 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20060509004620.3a8ed7a1@serene.no-ip.org> Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-Crazed Hippies X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.17; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Do we need a few more ports reviewers/committers? 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, 09 May 2006 05:46:31 -0000 It seems that the turnaround time on ports submissions, even the simplest of maintainer updates on existing ports, is becoming incredibly long these days. My latest maintainer update (ports/95900 for news/klibido), submitted on April 17, 2006, is still languishing in an "open" state nearly a month later (which is really odd, considering that someone else since has *twice* submitted their own updates for the same port, which were acted on almost immediately, albeit they were closed in deference to my "official" submission as the port's maintainer). Is it simply due to a lack of sufficient personnel to keep up with the steady, never-ending stream of ports submissions that there's such a backlog of maintainer PRs awaiting approval/committing? If so, I'd be happy to volunteer as a committer (and indeed, would consider it quite an honor and a privilege even to be be considered as a candidate for such). I know that a number of the people involved in reviewing and committing ports are also quite busily involved in other areas of FreeBSD, so if I can help in any way to lighten their load and allow them to focus more on their other duties, I'd certainly be delighted to do so. I've been using FreeBSD since June 1996 (my history with computers in general dates all the way back to 1982), have been the maintainer of several ports for quite some time now, and have submitted patches for other ports from time to time. In addition, one of my very own original creations is actually a part of the ports collection (news/multisuck), although it was submitted by someone other than myself (OK, I know this may seem a tad irrelevant, but I mention it only as an indication of my level of expertise as a programmer). After ten years with FreeBSD, I really would like to become even more involved with the project, to make a larger contribution in some way, and I think the role of ports reviewer/ committer would be a good "fit" for me. Thank you in advance to whomever it may concern for your consideration of this request. Hopefully, I'll receive some feedback on it, one way or the other, in less time than it's currently taking to get my port update committed. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"