Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:48:37 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Casavant <b.j.casavant@ieee.org>, freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, Brent Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Survey Message-ID: <20060522134837.0b88d705@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <447195E3.4000003@kernel32.de> References: <4471361B.5060208@freebsd.org> <20060521231657.O6063@abigail.angeltread.org> <44714FBB.4000603@samsco.org> <44718700.2060102@kernel32.de> <20060522133424.3087acfc@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <447195E3.4000003@kernel32.de>
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--Sig_A28mgaAKj2kX7rmVPRnBcVV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:47 +0200 Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 >=20 > Hi Ion, >=20 > Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: >=20 > >>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? > >=20 > >=20 > > With the maintainers/commiters/physical_resources we have now this is > > impossible. > That's what I guessed... And it's not only HR lack problem, we would need more hardware for the package building cluster too. =20 > > 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... >=20 > >=20 > >>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 :) IMO this could work only with some funding from interested companies. Maybe that could be an idea for a survey. > > There are ~4300 unmaintained ports. Maybe you could start maintaining > > some of them _now_ ? > >=20 > I'll have a look into my ports tree. Let me guess, ports which are have > the maintainer ports@freebsd.org are unmaintained? Yup. Just ' cd /usr/ports/ ; make search key=3Dports@FreeBSD.org ' --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" BOFH excuse #324: Your packets were eaten by the terminator --Sig_A28mgaAKj2kX7rmVPRnBcVV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEcZcFBX6fi0k6KXsRAp0lAKCN+mEVZYwdMNGiiYGSrGuvHpxt2QCgtZTH lwqGJK9FqXeSVKtkWrmiDBA= =kv5w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_A28mgaAKj2kX7rmVPRnBcVV--
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