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Cc: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Solutions for the PR load problem
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Shaun Amott wrote:

> Indeed, part of the problem is burn-out. We recruit committers, and then
> their activity tapers off (I'm guilty of this myself). Part of this, I
> believe, is down to the effort involved in maintaining a useful
> (up-to-date) testing environment -- hence my advocacy of a centralised
> tinderbox resource. The machines I used to use are out-of-date and
> probably inadequate now.

Isn't that the type of project the Foundation is set up to fund?