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Date:      Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:07:30 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/74637 (new port: news/klibido) -- Will this ever be committed?
Message-ID:  <20050218040730.0bb5933c@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0502171919060.26199-100000@pancho>
References:  <20050217190549.72c4eb4d@dolphin.local.net> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0502171919060.26199-100000@pancho>

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 19:33:39 -0600 (CST)
Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> 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"




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