Number of maintainers vs. number of ports

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 5/23/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 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.

We need to punish our most active submitters with commit
bits on a more regular basis. That means less open pr's
and submissions being dealt a lot faster. I was delighted
to see most of my fixes/updates/additions being committed
(not without corrections) in less than 48 hours when I was an
additional contributor. That eased my work as a sysadmin,
enriched my freebsd-on-all-of-my-desktops experience and
encouraged me to devote more time to my work as a
maintainer.