From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 19:13:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org 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 AF50516A8D7 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 19:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B6443D67 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 19:13:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id n1so2266549nzf for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 12:13:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=o2P3LWxIi+tKCRoR7khvKOpFFQb14gJm+XBAKugHWul3C6YbHt25w7IDSMfesTo1rh1lmpsMPxcGcvzzvTndEUIcOF5XdAe/7OAQk5OBtu+dIS//3ARRL1M31j9Tjy79g7TzIVRs7nlsDqo7sNh/bXrc267nSnuZbbaHWnb4X4Y= Received: by 10.65.194.12 with SMTP id w12mr2286719qbp; Tue, 23 May 2006 12:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.203.20 with HTTP; Tue, 23 May 2006 12:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 23:13:37 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" To: pav@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1148405566.61285.4.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060523012528.GA8161@xor.obsecurity.org> <1148405566.61285.4.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> Cc: FreeBSD Ports , Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Number of maintainers vs. number of ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 19:13:48 -0000 On 5/23/06, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin p=ED=9Ae v =FAt 23. 05. 2006 v 12:59 +0400: > > On 5/23/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:28:11PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > > > On 5/22/06, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > > > >Just a quick notice: > > > > > > > > > >Ports 18 months ago: 10796 > > > > >Maintainers 18 months ago: ~535 > > > > > > > > > >Ports now: 14727 > > > > >Maintainers now: ~393 > > > > > > > > > > > > > Haha, there are some non-ASCII chars in INDEX, and I use > > > > UTF-8 locale, which made my search inaccurate. > > > > > > > > This is closer to the truth: > > > > > > > > Maintainers 18 months ago: ~1192 > > > > Maintainers now: ~1469 > > > > > > > > cut -f6 -d\| INDEX | tr A-Z a-z | sort -u | wc -l > > > > > > Nevertheless, I'd still like to see more maintaine{rs,d ports}. We > > > now have a nice document about "what it means to be a maintainer", so > > > I think we should start doing some outreach to bring new people in. > > > > We need to punish our most active submitters with commit > > bits on a more regular basis. That means less open pr's > > and submissions being dealt a lot faster. I was delighted > > to see most of my fixes/updates/additions being committed > > (not without corrections) in less than 48 hours when I was an > > additional contributor. > > 48 hours? > > Man, when I sent in my first PR, I waited nine frikkin months to have it > handled. > > When I joined the project, you was lucky to fit into 3 months. > Repocopy took a month just to get an ack from the repomeister. > Admins needed six weeks to create my freefall account. And when they > finally managed, I found myself stuck in the release freeze size of > Alaska! > > You boys have it all sweets and easy today. You mean, "grumps are made, not born"?