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Cc: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity,
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on 18/01/2012 02:16 Igor Mozolevsky said the following:
> Seriously, WTF is the point of having a PR system that allows patches
> to be submitted??! When I submit a patch I fix *your* code (not yours
> personally, but you get my gist).

Let me pretend that I don't get it.  It is as much your code as it is mine if
you are a user of FreeBSD.  I just happen to have a commit bit at this point in
time.

> No other project requires a
> non-committer to be so ridiculously persistent in order to get a patch
> through.

There are about 5000 open PRs for FreeBSD base system, maybe more.
There are only a few dozens of active FreeBSD developers.  Maybe less for any
given particular point in time (as opposed to a period of time).
And dealing with PRs is not always exciting.
Need I continue?

P.S. Using GNATS for the PR database doesn't help either, in some technical ways.
-- 
Andriy Gapon