Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:36:28 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New port with maintainer ports@FreeBSD.org [was: Question about maintainers] Message-ID: <42EBE4CC.2000502@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050730201802.GA29320@soaustin.net> References: <20050728154248.GA943@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20050728164111.GA66015@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20050728170401.GA9534@soaustin.net> <20050728172249.GD66015@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20050728175142.GA11503@soaustin.net> <20050728225650.GE66015@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20050729020225.GA28471@soaustin.net> <20050729102158.GA73490@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20050729203324.GA19476@soaustin.net> <9f7e126b050730124130c9bf87@mail.gmail.com> <20050730201802.GA29320@soaustin.net>
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Mark Linimon wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:11:40AM +0430, Babak Farrokhi wrote: >>There is really something wrong with the port management process. >>People's work is not being respected. So how do I get encouraged to >>submit my patches? > > We have 173 people with port commit bits (some of whom are more active > than others) and an average of around 30 ports PRs arriving per day. > Since all the ports committers are volunteers, it's not possible to > compel them to commit anything -- all we can do is to encourage, and to > offer recognition. I think we do pretty well keeping up with the > incoming PR flood (the rate of which, by the way, continues to increase.) > > It's not a perfect process, but I really don't know of what else that > we can do in a volunteer project. As a maintainer of a few of the ports, I am really quite pleased with how well it works. I think it depends a bit on your expectations. I never expect my updates to be looked at very quickly (but sometimes I am pleasantly surprized), but I always find that my updates are looked at after a couple of months. Considering that this is a volunteer project, I consider this completely acceptable. I think it is a question of whether you see the glass as half full or half empty. Stephen
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