Number of maintainers vs. number of ports

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 5/23/06, Pav Lucistnik <pav at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Andrew Pantyukhin píše v út 23. 05. 2006 v 12:59 +0400:
> > On 5/23/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:28:11PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > > > On 5/22/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > >Just a quick notice:
> > > > >
> > > > >Ports 18 months ago: 10796
> > > > >Maintainers 18 months ago: ~535
> > > > >
> > > > >Ports now: 14727
> > > > >Maintainers now: ~393
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Haha, there are some non-ASCII chars in INDEX, and I use
> > > > UTF-8 locale, which made my search inaccurate.
> > > >
> > > > This is closer to the truth:
> > > >
> > > > Maintainers 18 months ago: ~1192
> > > > Maintainers now: ~1469
> > > >
> > > > cut -f6 -d\| INDEX | tr A-Z a-z | sort -u | wc -l
> > >
> > > Nevertheless, I'd still like to see more maintaine{rs,d ports}.  We
> > > now have a nice document about "what it means to be a maintainer", so
> > > I think we should start doing some outreach to bring new people in.
> >
> > We need to punish our most active submitters with commit
> > bits on a more regular basis. That means less open pr's
> > and submissions being dealt a lot faster. I was delighted
> > to see most of my fixes/updates/additions being committed
> > (not without corrections) in less than 48 hours when I was an
> > additional contributor.
>
> 48 hours?
>
> Man, when I sent in my first PR, I waited nine frikkin months to have it
> handled.
>
> When I joined the project, you was lucky to fit into 3 months.
> Repocopy took a month just to get an ack from the repomeister.
> Admins needed six weeks to create my freefall account. And when they
> finally managed, I found myself stuck in the release freeze size of
> Alaska!
>
> You boys have it all sweets and easy today.

You mean, "grumps are made, not born"?