Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:54:45 +0200 From: Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> Subject: Re: How are [MAINTAINER] patches handled and why aren't PRs FIFO? Message-ID: <4DB89EB5.2010603@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110427101257.414aaf8b@seibercom.net> References: <4DB7B237.7000603@marino.st> <BANLkTinoGufNYZmkFgQmwGR4RjBXWXcDTA@mail.gmail.com> <20110427075436.70ae18ac@seibercom.net> <19896.4396.161941.282904@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20110427093258.3966cfd2@seibercom.net> <20110427134836.GA30085@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20110427101257.414aaf8b@seibercom.net>
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On 2011-04-27 16:12, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:48:36 +0200 > Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> articulated: > >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:32:58AM -0400, Jerry wrote: >>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:50:52 -0400 >>> >>> However, I do find troubling you statement regarding a large update >>> to an older port or even a new port submission for that matter. I >>> see no logical reason for a committer to bypass an item simple >>> based on its size or the amount of work involved in getting it >>> committed. After all, consider that the original submitter invested >>> a large amount of his/her time in that same item. >> >> Very simple. A particular committer during one particular period of >> time maybe only 45 minutes of free time to spend on handling PRs. >> If the committer estimates that one large submitted PR would take at >> least two hours to review, test, and commit, while another, smaller, >> PR would only take 30 minutes to handle. >> >> Then the committer in question would have two choices: Don't handle >> either submission, or handling the smaller submission, while skipping >> the large one and hoping that some other committer with more free time >> will pick up that one. >> I see no reason to prefer the first of these choices. > > If the committer cannot finish the project in their allotted time > frame they simply stop and pick up from that point in their next > session. I have literally hundreds of projects that I cannot complete > in one day; however, I don't simply shrug them off. If I did nothing > would ever get accomplished, or at best only the easiest assignments. > > One of the basic fallacies in your analysis is that someone else will > pick up the slack. Unfortunately, our society has become over run by > those who are always ready to blame others or expect others to do our > job for us. Quite honestly, I find that pathetic. > Maybe you have some time to spend? If my quick lookup was not totally wrong I cannot find one PR opened by you. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?originator=seibercom&closedtoo=on
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