From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 24 23:30:14 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 0828C9EA for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:30:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x229.google.com (mail-qc0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD51F13AC for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f169.google.com with SMTP id w7so5343860qcr.14 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:30:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Lfh0fC8iaMMiD58al9SXpDF9wx540XCXX+MW/DMvU3Q=; b=keiD6FeBf721uZPX+l06PuAZ42yt0mKX2At57MZQQlvQH7a5jORSnQ0DGSxhPc7z2G DjuI1to4QutvHwl0FKq6oDuSLRXPsCIKECiNpZyRUz2/t2KnCa5wZksOg+1S0wguIsyi 9VxIjFUJv5vdAJUyP7MFG2HgNhcpJHQhrlNKLb5LoZWjWdO8SNnCzvKrFLl8DSMDcViF ry3UUUL5jU7ML/QVteM41dB+gfSwMcOJuT91Ld4PmqfvIeTyonrpYuFyaHiXt2+jHWae +CE8guDmy/O7dFR3VjPAGs5Rd1ZxLAf64DdnGxT+iL/tgo+3D15aemrm2nGYXeqWTL6n YrbA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.81.74 with SMTP id e68mr11467331qgd.99.1390606212971; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:30:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.208.202 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:30:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:30:12 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays? From: Big Lebowski To: freebsd-ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 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: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:30:14 -0000 Hi everyone, I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what is the problem? It seems to me, as a ports contributor, that this time is only growing, not shrinking, and there's no formal/automated procedures that would help in managing the issue. Today I found myself fighting with ezjail only to discover it has issues working on FreeBSD 10.0-R. Great, I thought, there must be something else, so I went to make the research. It appears there isnt much more, and the alternatives are qjail that seems to be quite dated and zjails, that's not in ports. Not long after looking into zjails, what seems to be a great tool, I found its port submission sits there since... September 2013. Now, given the fact the Docker is on mouth of everyone, and containers are getting a lot of attention, FreeBSD looks really bad with no tools to manage such great technology like Jails, especially when ezjail, unofficial industry standard to manage jails, is now broken and zjails waits to be accepted (or even rejected) for so much time. What is the problem? Isnt there enought commiters? Isnt there a automated PR handling procedure reminding commiters with relevant access about such submissions? Can we help? I hope to spark some discussion. Kind regards, B.