Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 22:55:53 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Do we need a few more ports reviewers/committers? Message-ID: <20060512035553.GB27663@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20060509004620.3a8ed7a1@serene.no-ip.org> References: <20060509004620.3a8ed7a1@serene.no-ip.org>
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Within the past 6 weeks we have added 6? 7? new ports committers. Some of these folks had been very active in submitting PRs to fix such things as distfile problems and so forth. To some extent these PRs added to the overall numbers, to the point that the count really hasn't gone down since the unfreeze. I am hoping that with all the new talent that we'll start heading back down to the 500 (!) recent low that we hit last November. At that time we were turning over such things as port updates pretty quickly. More information about how to contribute to the Ports Collection is in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/. It doesn't seem to address the process of becoming a committer, which I can't locate at the moment. To be brief, an existing committer must propose you and be willing to mentor you (pre-screen your commits) for some period of time, to make sure that you understand all the issues in e.g. the Porter's Handbook. I'll also remind folks that if they want to see a list of maintainer-update PRs, they can use http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsprsmaintainerupdates.py. Currently there seem to be 55 PRs on that list. mcl
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