Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:47 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> To: "Ion-Mihai \"IOnut\" Tetcu" <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Brent Casavant <b.j.casavant@ieee.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Survey Message-ID: <447195E3.4000003@kernel32.de> In-Reply-To: <20060522133424.3087acfc@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <4471361B.5060208@freebsd.org> <20060521231657.O6063@abigail.angeltread.org> <44714FBB.4000603@samsco.org> <44718700.2060102@kernel32.de> <20060522133424.3087acfc@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ion, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: >>I have to agree on that statement. I would love to see branched ports. >>This can get very important on servers, were you don't want to have >>major upgrades, but only security updates. >>I guess it's a question of manpower, hm? > > > With the maintainers/commiters/physical_resources we have now this is > impossible. That's what I guessed... > Take a look at pav@'s PR stats page: http://www.oook.cz/bsd/prstats/ > There are ~1000 new ports PRs per month. The PT Team has managed to > close about the same number per month (fewer during the freeze, of > course). > Currently there are 551 open PRs. 238 in feedback state, etc. I see... > > >>Would a survey help? As in ask the ports team and FreeBSD >>administrators? Maybe some will start to become port maintainer too, >>just to support the increased work on ports due to branching them... >>I would :) > > > There are ~4300 unmaintained ports. Maybe you could start maintaining > some of them _now_ ? > I'll have a look into my ports tree. Let me guess, ports which are have the maintainer ports@freebsd.org are unmaintained? regards, Marian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEcZXhgAq87Uq5FMsRAnqFAJ4t0fO+uQTk/XRDFvTcA9ZLKuy6PACguig5 qAKibfTgwhzrVojGkHPyvpk= =6eKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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