Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:23:53 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering Message-ID: <475449B9.1010002@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <34531C67-A2F9-48DB-8161-34593AC0C481@FreeBSD.org> References: <200712030308.32301.david@vizion2000.net> <3BC04A18-86CD-4A93-831A-691EBD8D4A43@FreeBSD.org> <47543109.3050303@gmail.com> <7957A7E2-3ADA-4BD5-934C-F10A1F08F72F@FreeBSD.org> <47544020.5090605@gmail.com> <ADB6E4A8-DDA2-4C0A-A5E1-EF9A45A53753@FreeBSD.org> <47544727.9030209@gmail.com> <34531C67-A2F9-48DB-8161-34593AC0C481@FreeBSD.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Dec 03, 2007, at 10:12 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> I have about 20 responses in private email and only the ones you >> have seen in public are in this category > > Enough said. There are currently ~180 people with direct access to > the ports/ tree (ie: ports committers). Only 2 are self-reported maintainers and at least 5 admit to not being maintainers... I think your main issue is you are 100% in "there is nothing wrong" camp and for what ever reason want to convience everyone else any effort to say/do differently is misguided. > > Even assuming all private email responses came from committers, > that's an 11% hit rate. That is why I am planning to wait to the end of Dec. or so to report the results in detail (and widen the audiences/forums) > > Which part of "statistically invalid" is not getting through here? A self-selected sample will never be "statically" valid *BUT* it can be informative about what people are thinking. - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHVEm5358R5LPuPvsRAk4zAJ90UYdW0jfTCyxwlAXDRd2Uf58uPACfbmpS 1NG3/ziaCXuf/4GFBxKRIQ8= =KUFV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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