From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 26 13:29:35 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3E3B511 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout.easydns.com (mailout.easydns.com [64.68.200.141]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DD741746 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailout.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4505312F561 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 08:30:52 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mailout.easydns.com Received: from mailout.easydns.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailout.easydns.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KA7CL6I_WPZy for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 08:30:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from ares.hayers.org (cpc20-tilb7-2-0-cust491.20-1.cable.virginm.net [82.34.211.236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailout.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C9DD712F366 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 08:30:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from ares.hayers.org (ares.hayers.org [127.0.0.1]) by ares.hayers.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A94B3B06FE0 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:29:22 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: HCF-Sophos-SpamAssassin at hayers.org Received: from ares.hayers.org ([127.0.0.1]) by ares.hayers.org (ares.hayers.org [127.0.0.1]) (HCF-Sophos-SpamAssassin, port 10024) with ESMTP id Aw8Pso5pB4Od for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:29:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.8.2] (zeus.hayers.org [192.168.8.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: gary) by ares.hayers.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 39B96B05864 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:29:09 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <52E50DBA.4010807@hayers.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:29:30 +0000 From: "Gary J. Hayers" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays? References: <52E2FA36.5080106@marino.st> <52E303CB.6020304@marino.st> <52E30990.2060903@marino.st> <52E398FF.9000300@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:29:35 -0000 On 26/01/2014 13:06, Big Lebowski wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Does it have to be all-or-nothing situation, where we can do something only > if we have 20-50 people looking at 6-15 PR's a week, and we cant do > anything if we dont? Cant we start with 2-3 people (3 people so far > volunteered to do so, and I belive a 'call to arms' via this > list/announcements/bsdnow.tv/reddit would result in may others willing to > help) doing as much as they can? I get the feeling more people would volunteer if it meant clearing the backlog of PRs. I have a lot of spare time so I could go through a lot of PRs. > Also, what about some kind of 'junior commiter' role, where solid port > maintainers get rights to commit to their ports only? If that would be > doable, we could offload a lot of work from current commiters to work on > other things. Suspect this would work, however, the more committers the less the quality of work? -- Regards, Gary J. Hayers gary@hayers.org PGP Signature http://www.hayers.org/pgp