On Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:47 +0200 Marian Hettwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Ion, > > Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote: > > >>I have to agree on that statement. I would love to see branched ports. > >>This can get very important on servers, were you don't want to have > >>major upgrades, but only security updates. > >>I guess it's a question of manpower, hm? > > > > > > With the maintainers/commiters/physical_resources we have now this is > > impossible. > That's what I guessed... And it's not only HR lack problem, we would need more hardware for the package building cluster too. > > Take a look at pav@'s PR stats page: http://www.oook.cz/bsd/prstats/ > > There are ~1000 new ports PRs per month. The PT Team has managed to > > close about the same number per month (fewer during the freeze, of > > course). > > Currently there are 551 open PRs. 238 in feedback state, etc. > I see... > > > > >>Would a survey help? As in ask the ports team and FreeBSD > >>administrators? Maybe some will start to become port maintainer too, > >>just to support the increased work on ports due to branching them... > >>I would :) IMO this could work only with some funding from interested companies. Maybe that could be an idea for a survey. > > There are ~4300 unmaintained ports. Maybe you could start maintaining > > some of them _now_ ? > > > I'll have a look into my ports tree. Let me guess, ports which are have > the maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] are unmaintained? Yup. Just ' cd /usr/ports/ ; make search [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" BOFH excuse #324: Your packets were eaten by the terminator
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