From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 11 01:47:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424851065679 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 01:47:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A338FC1F for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 01:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28522 invoked by uid 399); 11 May 2010 01:47:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 11 May 2010 01:47:16 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4BE8B723.80809@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:47:15 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu References: <4BDF1F8D.4090401@gmail.com> <20100503230127.58979b9f@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20100504171535.0b661c12@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20100507032750.c97f7886.mihai.militaru@gmx.com> <20100507092703.773c4f3d@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20100507092703.773c4f3d@it.buh.tecnik93.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dixit port bad management 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, 11 May 2010 01:47:18 -0000 On 05/06/10 23:27, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > Compared to the major Linux distros, you might want to keep one thing > in mind: we are not backed-up by a commercial entity that pays for our > work and for the hardware to do the work on. Indeed, I am not aware of > any ports committer hired by someone to work on ports. I have been sponsored by both members of the community and companies to work on portmaster (http://dougbarton.us/portmaster-proposal.html) and have also been contracted to do work on other ports. That doesn't take away from the strength of your main point however. The vast majority of work on FreeBSD ports is on a volunteer basis. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/