I agree with this and there is also the 2nd issue of commiters not responding to those working on updating ports.
Point and Fax I have emaile Sobomax about fixing and updating the asterisk ports. and have sent patches but never got a reply in 9 months. If your going to be a maintainer you need to respond to those working on projects already in ports. On December 26, 2007 10:42:24 am M. Warner Losh wrote: > Mark and Henrik make a number of good points here. Rather than reply > to the details, I'm going to make a couple of quick observations. > > As a project we're not leveraging the community sufficiently when it > comes to contributions. The current system of patch review and > submission is very hap-hazard. If you happen to get the attention of > the right person at the right time, then it goes in. If not, patches > can languish a long time in the PR system. > > The PR system is also the wrong tool for the job. While Mark touches > on the cultural issues in play, they are exacerbated by the > misapplication of a problem system to be a patch submission and > tracking system. Maybe we need to adopt a practice from the Linux > community. At least for arm kernel patches, there is a two step > process: submit it to a mailing list for review and refinement, with > the second step being submitting it into a queue. I'm not sure the > details we need to be successful in the FreeBSD project. > > Many of the USB patches in the PR system I left alone because I didn't > have the time and/or knowledge to evaluate them for inclusion, or I > saw something obviously wrong in the patch. When I was trying to just > get through the obviously trivial patches. > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Welcome to the World. An the World gets smaller. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
