On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:41 AM, John Marino <freebsd.cont...@marino.st>wrote:
> On 1/25/2014 00:30, Big Lebowski wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what > is > > the problem? It seems to me, as a ports contributor, that this time is > only > > growing, not shrinking, and there's no formal/automated procedures that > > would help in managing the issue. > > > > What is the problem? > > Seriously? You did all that research and didn't notice this? > query all open ports PRS: 1705 problems total. > > Short answer: Sheer number of PRs. > I did, in fact, and this is not the problem, this is the symptom of the problem. > > > Isnt there enought commiters? > > Well, at least there are more PRs than people closing PRs. Not all > committers deal with PRs. Getting a commit bit does not obligate you to > process PRs. If there's a PR already on a port a committer has interest > in fixing, then he/she will probably process the PR while they are there. > > > Isnt there a automated > > PR handling procedure reminding commiters with relevant access about such > > submissions? Can we help? I hope to spark some discussion. > > Of course there is. People get reminded about assigned PRs constantly. > You think a computer message will make somebody work faster if they > didn't forget about it (iow they are aware and actively decided not to > deal with it yet). > > I would have thought the situation is kind of obvious. There are lots > of PRs, nobody is paid to process them, there are no teams dedicated to > "new ports" Perhaps there could be? Or some commiters who would assess if the PR can be handled easily or it needs a more experienced eye to look at it? > , lots of PRs are stuck because their non-freebsd.org > maintainers are MIA or abandoned their emails and nobody is going to > Shouldnt those be invalidated and closed to reduce the workload illusion that tends to set off people from doing work? > touch a PR in "feedback", etc, etc. Finally, some committers are pretty > sloppy at closing complete/obsolete PRs. > > When people get paid to do it, I think the situation will improve. :) > Great, then perhaps FreeBSD deserves dedicated, paid commiter to handle that situation? After all, we're donating money to the project, and if there's general consensus this is a problem that needs to be fixed and this is the only way to do it, then perhaps something can be done about it? > > John > _______________________________________________ > 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" > _______________________________________________ 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"
