Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:41:42 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays? Message-ID: <52E2FA36.5080106@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <CAHcXP%2Bf6e-t--XbQPTH1goJp_CL7P=zTj5trZVWd4YZ_EsO9gw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHcXP%2Bf6e-t--XbQPTH1goJp_CL7P=zTj5trZVWd4YZ_EsO9gw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/25/2014 00:30, Big Lebowski wrote: > 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. > > What is the problem? Seriously? You did all that research and didn't notice this? query all open ports PRS: 1705 problems total. Short answer: Sheer number of PRs. > Isnt there enought commiters? Well, at least there are more PRs than people closing PRs. Not all committers deal with PRs. Getting a commit bit does not obligate you to process PRs. If there's a PR already on a port a committer has interest in fixing, then he/she will probably process the PR while they are there. > Isnt there a automated > PR handling procedure reminding commiters with relevant access about such > submissions? Can we help? I hope to spark some discussion. Of course there is. People get reminded about assigned PRs constantly. You think a computer message will make somebody work faster if they didn't forget about it (iow they are aware and actively decided not to deal with it yet). I would have thought the situation is kind of obvious. There are lots of PRs, nobody is paid to process them, there are no teams dedicated to "new ports", lots of PRs are stuck because their non-freebsd.org maintainers are MIA or abandoned their emails and nobody is going to touch a PR in "feedback", etc, etc. Finally, some committers are pretty sloppy at closing complete/obsolete PRs. When people get paid to do it, I think the situation will improve. :) John
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