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 my perspective as a maintainer of some and occasional contributor to others, I think "slightly" undersells it a bit; hardly without exception, but it generally works OK. 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 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. A bad outside contribution brought into src falls all over the commiter. Not entirely unreasonable, since a lot of even small-ish breakages in src are much bigger deals than even large-ish breakages in ports. But it still makes it expensive to contemplate being a conduit... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
