Number of maintainers vs. number of ports

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Sat May 27 17:01:26 PDT 2006


Is there a way of querying the problems database through the web to look 
for any PRs that deal with ports that one maintains?

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Kris Kennaway 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.
>
> Kris
>

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