On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 09:04:25PM -0700, K. Macy wrote:
> This is where culling older bug reports comes in.
Well, even with doing that, the sheer number really doesn't help the
S/N that much. It may make someone a bit neurotic like me feel a bit
better, but that's all.
> However, when I've
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:25:10PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> because the incentives are rigged. A bad outside contribution brought
> into ports more often yields "hey, you should have noticed" to the
> committer and more opprobrium back to the submitter.
I believe you're missing two
>
> I wrote up a couple more paragraphs about why I think it happens and
> what we'd need to do to import more of that sense over into src. But
> it was way longer than it needs to be. We get a lot more man-hours in
> ports/ acting as conduits for the "outside patches -> svn" pipeline
> because
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 03:49:46PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Mark Linimon, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> We do slightly better turning over ports PRs -- due to the fact that
> we attach a maintainer field to each port. This doesn't completely
> solve the problem, but it goes some distance.
>From
Straying off-topic from the Subject line ...
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:34:18AM -0400, Joe Maloney wrote:
> Technically since I was using PC-BSD, and was a committer for that
> project I had no real dire need to reach out to FreeBSD about the
> [wireless driver issue]. I was simply trying to
