FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:

> On 17 January 2012 23:01, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> If you'd like to see:
>>
>> ... more frequent releases? then please step up and help with all the
>> infrastructure needed to roll out test releases, including building
>> _all_ the ports. A lot of people keep forgetting that a "release" is
>> "build all the ports for all the supported platforms".
>
> I don't know this so I'm asking: does fixing a port to work on a
> pending release involve substantial changes (as in functionality cf.
> cosmetic) to the "core" or just patching the port to work with the
> core? If latter, maybe it's worthwhile uncoupling the two (core OS and
> ports)?

IMHO, the two are already uncoupled too much.  The problem I have
with ports is that there is not a -stable branch that tracks with
-stable core.  I don't need the latest and greatest ports, just
security and bug fixes.  It doesn't even have to be every port,
just the commonly used ports.  There's not enough man power for
this, unfortunately, but I'm still happy that at least we _do_
have _a_ ports system :-)

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