status of FreeBSD ports you maintain as of 20090705

[Diego Depaoli]

2009/8/1 Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 07:37:27PM +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote:
>> I now know more than ever why I switched to OpenBSD.
>> FreeBSD people no longer seem to care about broken ports, or making people
>> who submit broken patches maintainers, or even replying to my messages.
[snip]
> To summarize: my own view is that we don't want bad patches or bad updates
> to be committed; but our committers are human, too.  It's worth repeating
> that we rely on our committers to be responsible for verifying that the
> changes that they're committing are correct and useful; but, they're
> volunteers as well, so we have to rely on a combination of constructive
> criticism and encouragement to try to improve things.
There are too many ports and too few people who care them.
IMHO the options are:
- decrease the number of ports
- increase the number of  volunteers/committers/testers...
- switch to a multi-level solution (e.g. Archlinux).

Regards
-- 
Diego Depaoli