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From: Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:34:54AM -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
> I was amazed to see that there are 16102 available ports, I was also
> amazed looking at this graphic:
> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/growth/status.png
>=20
> How is it possible? How many people are helping porting applications?
> There's gotta be millions to maintain each new versions of so many
> applications...
>=20
> Is there some sort of automation creating so many ports?
> Thanks in advance!

Not at all. There is nothing automated :-)

There are currently 180 ports committers and about 2000 additional
contributors (but this number is not limited to ports work).

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Vasil Dimov
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