status of FreeBSD ports you maintain as of 20090705

[Alex Goncharov]

,--- You/Doug (Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:26:08 -0700) ----*
| > - increase the number of  volunteers/committers/testers...
| This is the only valid answer for FreeBSD.
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Take a look at the PR submission and update dates in
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137046

(the port I maintain).

Doesn't it seem excessive to you, for an update as simple as that?

Wouldn't it be better for everybody if more people could commit the
changes in their ports themselves?  (Subject to a commit-privilege
revocation on a substantial breakage anyplace).

How could I, for example, turn from a volunteer to a committer?

Take also a look at the history of an attempt to volunteer elsewhere
in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136263.

Something doesn't feel right about the way ports are handled in
FreeBSD these days.

Of course, the easiest is to dismiss the voices of discontent.

-- Alex -- alex-goncharov at comcast.net --