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On 09/07/2010 18:50, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:15:58 +0200
> Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote:
> 
>> Currently the PR load is obviously too high for the committer team
>> to deal with. From a maintainer perspective this is rather painful,
>> I have currently stopped updating all my ports, because I want
>> pending updates committed first and also want to avoid running into
>> PR dependencies (ioquake3, openarena and iourbanterror are 
>> examples in my case).
>>
> 
> Are you aware that the ports tree was in freeze/slush for the 8.1
> release?  This was just lifted.
> 
> Not much happens when that's the case.

I'm not sweeping talking about sweeping commits and the problem has
become apparent months ago.

And while the number of ports is steadily increasing, the number
of commits appears to be declining slightly.

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