Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:29:30 +0000 From: "Gary J. Hayers" <gary@hayers.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays? Message-ID: <52E50DBA.4010807@hayers.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHcXP%2Bd8a-dcaMHM0y=7PcBReZy6J8eaANLHTDBb-=fM4cmjVw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHcXP%2Bf6e-t--XbQPTH1goJp_CL7P=zTj5trZVWd4YZ_EsO9gw@mail.gmail.com> <52E2FA36.5080106@marino.st> <CAHcXP%2BfRDeKXjz0_sifgzeXC2dA-eDnoV5NH1yvF2D6R8JRmAg@mail.gmail.com> <52E303CB.6020304@marino.st> <CAHcXP%2Be9p2HrQ=M9HmPecMbWtXRuYPzH9kwfLGqgdrUrhvLuEA@mail.gmail.com> <52E30990.2060903@marino.st> <CAHcXP%2BfQC-N4ZKpmpaCQSeYnw4WqOJ4T4pdsoMC6NpshsOm6sQ@mail.gmail.com> <52E398FF.9000300@FreeBSD.org> <CAHcXP%2Bd8a-dcaMHM0y=7PcBReZy6J8eaANLHTDBb-=fM4cmjVw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 26/01/2014 13:06, Big Lebowski wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>wrote: > Does it have to be all-or-nothing situation, where we can do something only > if we have 20-50 people looking at 6-15 PR's a week, and we cant do > anything if we dont? Cant we start with 2-3 people (3 people so far > volunteered to do so, and I belive a 'call to arms' via this > list/announcements/bsdnow.tv/reddit would result in may others willing to > help) doing as much as they can? I get the feeling more people would volunteer if it meant clearing the backlog of PRs. I have a lot of spare time so I could go through a lot of PRs. > Also, what about some kind of 'junior commiter' role, where solid port > maintainers get rights to commit to their ports only? If that would be > doable, we could offload a lot of work from current commiters to work on > other things. Suspect this would work, however, the more committers the less the quality of work? -- Regards, Gary J. Hayers gary@hayers.org PGP Signature http://www.hayers.org/pgp
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