From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 02:07:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6558216A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:07:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FD9A43D2F for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:07:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 26016 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2005 02:02:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 18 Feb 2005 02:02:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 542 invoked by uid 89); 18 Feb 2005 02:11:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 18 Feb 2005 02:11:43 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 466AD114D2; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:07:30 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:07:30 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Mark Linimon Message-ID: <20050218040730.0bb5933c@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20050217190549.72c4eb4d@dolphin.local.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/74637 (new port: news/klibido) -- Will this ever be committed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:07:34 -0000 On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:33:39 -0600 (CST) Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > Come on, folks! There's no good reason why this port shouldn't have > > been committed by now. > > You mean other than a shortage of volunteers with respect to the number > of incoming PRs per day (about 40 for all parts of FreeBSD) and an > existing backlog of 187 other new-port PRs? :-/ Promote a few maintainers to commiters ;-) Not that I don't agree with what yo say :-| > I appreciate your frustration, but this post doesn't really help any > of us volunteers feel like the work we do is sufficiently appreciated. > Since no one (AFAIK) gets paid to work on ports, this is really all we > have to go on to keep us motivated (other than that "good warm feeling > of a job well done".) Hmm, I was just thinking if users really care what happen to the ports they're using, I've recently asked for a 5 minutes test and got the big, incredible number of 2 responses. And I know at least around 500 people use that port. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"