Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:21:18 +0200 From: Roman Kennke <roman@ontographics.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: RELEASE_X_Y_Z branches/tags maintained?? Message-ID: <1098688877.666.14.camel@moonlight> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410250143180.884-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410250143180.884-100000@pancho>
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Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Mark Linimon um 8:52: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Roman Kennke wrote: > > > Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Kris Kennaway um 0:30: > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:19:36PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > > > I have a question regarding the branches/tags of the ports tree for > > > > stable releases. Are they in any way maintained. > > > > > > No. > > > > Hmm, wouldn't this be a good thing to do, especially on production > > machines? > > This question comes up once or twice a year. It is _possible_ that > it would be a good thing to do ... given infinite manpower, which we > don't have. What we do have is almost 12k ports * 12 build environments > (cross product of major release * chip architecture). > > Even with just maintaining one single line of development for ports, > we aren't managing all that coverage, and we aren't making headway > on getting the number of PRs down (we were making slow progress until > the freeze, but we gained 200 during that time.) We're only getting > somewhere around 95% of the i386 ports, 90% of the amd64 and sparc64 > ports, and we are having trouble with the alpha build machines. > > Oh yeah, and 3153 ports with no maintainer, which is another problem > altogether :-) So it is the old problem of quantity vs. quality :-/ I would help out if I had time and knowledge. Are these problems documented somewhere (e.g. a list of unmaintained ports, ...) ? Is there someone screaming: "hey, we have problems, please help out!" or "please fix known problems before adding new ones (== new ports)" /Roman
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