Number of maintainers vs. number of ports

[Kris Kennaway]

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.

Kris
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