Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:42:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New port? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404091127160.23783-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <20040409160234.GB31230@laptop.lambertfam.org>
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On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Scott Lambert wrote: > I've had them committed the same day or two months later. The keyword > of "depends" is very true and, for me, expected in an all volunteer > project, especially one of this magnitude. In general the new ports come in 'fast and furious' and it's a struggle to keep up with them. At http://www.freebsd.org/ports/growth/status.png you can get an idea of how many get committed, but not how quickly once submitted. http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portsprsbyexplanation.py?explanation=new will give you a good idea of what the backlog looks like at any given moment. As you can tell, the times vary all over the map, but my own guess is that 3 weeks is probably both the median and the mode. (Answering that question in any more detail would require me teaching portsmon about "PR histories" and currently the code has no such concept -- it only knows about the current state). The only certainty is that new ports that can't be fetched, or don't compile on both 4.x and 5.x, or have some other problem requiring an exchange of email with the submitter, will take longer to get in than ones which "just work" :-) mcl
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