From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 26 13:32:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C89F05F5 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x236.google.com (mail-qa0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8025217BE for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id i13so6063904qae.13 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:32:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=uPXfdLbVzN3GRMAwjwI8oe6wvnTHzfuNtL/Ug/z9PGk=; b=zWHWBM0xvgG2trRXWs5B4I6B5xBuc55t+DH1b86FTleRTl5jxrP3Ei8v6nMFrV0R0k l1hvyaJhYhPra13qP4n/MMSxppENhcwFt2cz4uam1oEy6kVecVCsHCnWzVqCL6aWedsC ZWRVBm2M5rEHqfKR72IiSq+rYm8vF6ST790KW/dkvcftz/s/SClpGKbmIwvD92Y/KKbj fZy/MIJOZs591+LKA5K+tNVIsuNkvfLhxs3rYKX0+f/8vsD6SZSj0g+jcCo3QVrWbpQL 5pwf0be1ebIRNd9aVUvB3r76cZQRsPGljuN//3dQvoCEgjrsWP3LnNCopGJgg8puu8L3 jLFA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.72.72 with SMTP id l8mr35226157qaj.51.1390743146620; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:32:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.208.202 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:32:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <52E50DBA.4010807@hayers.org> References: <52E2FA36.5080106@marino.st> <52E303CB.6020304@marino.st> <52E30990.2060903@marino.st> <52E398FF.9000300@FreeBSD.org> <52E50DBA.4010807@hayers.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:32:26 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays? From: Big Lebowski To: "Gary J. Hayers" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: freebsd-ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:32:27 -0000 On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Gary J. Hayers wrote: > On 26/01/2014 13:06, Big Lebowski wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Matthew Seaman > >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? Is there any evidence to support that argument? Or is it just a fear of that? At any point if that happens, then this can be revoked, the selection can be tighter, things can be adjusted, nothing is written in stone. Also, people were mentioning existing commiters to be sloppy and problematic, we've months of waiting for PR's to be taken care of, and there are still ports accepted that dont work at all - is that this work quality we're so troubled for? B. > > > -- > > Regards, > Gary J. Hayers > gary@hayers.org > > PGP Signature > http://www.hayers.org/pgp > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >