Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

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Hi Ion,

Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote:

I have to agree on that statement. I would love to see branched ports.
This can get very important on servers, were you don't want to have
major upgrades, but only security updates.
I guess it's a question of manpower, hm?


With the maintainers/commiters/physical_resources we have now this is
impossible.
That's what I guessed...

Take a look at pav@'s PR stats page: http://www.oook.cz/bsd/prstats/
There are ~1000 new ports PRs per month. The PT Team has managed to
close about the same number per month (fewer during the freeze, of
course).
Currently there are 551 open PRs. 238 in feedback state, etc.
I see...



Would a survey help? As in ask the ports team and FreeBSD
administrators? Maybe some will start to become port maintainer too,
just to support the increased work on ports due to branching them...
I would :)


There are ~4300 unmaintained ports. Maybe you could start maintaining
some of them _now_ ?

I'll have a look into my ports tree. Let me guess, ports which are have
the maintainer ports@xxxxxxxxxxx are unmaintained?

regards,
Marian
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