2009/8/1 Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com>: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 07:37:27PM +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote: >> I now know more than ever why I switched to OpenBSD. >> FreeBSD people no longer seem to care about broken ports, or making people >> who submit broken patches maintainers, or even replying to my messages. [snip] > To summarize: my own view is that we don't want bad patches or bad updates > to be committed; but our committers are human, too. It's worth repeating > that we rely on our committers to be responsible for verifying that the > changes that they're committing are correct and useful; but, they're > volunteers as well, so we have to rely on a combination of constructive > criticism and encouragement to try to improve things. There are too many ports and too few people who care them. IMHO the options are: - decrease the number of ports - increase the number of volunteers/committers/testers... - switch to a multi-level solution (e.g. Archlinux).
Regards -- Diego Depaoli _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
