Re: "Why I am retiring from contributing to FreeBSD"

On Thu, Jan 01, 2026 at 05:49:32PM +0000, Wismos@proton.me wrote:
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>in my opinion the project is affected by paralysis due to lack of contributors
>for a lack of better words, often times i see many useful patches sitting 
>in review waiting to be approved or critical bugs in several important 
>ports not being patched or some new ports just sitting for years

My own observation is not that there's any lack of contributors,
but there is a lack of action - 'actuators' for want of a better word - 
to review and either reject with explanation or apply the contribution.

Whether this is due to lack of numbers, time or interest on the part of
'actuators', maybe all three, maybe more, I don't know. I think it'd be 
constructive to clarify. Clearly there's a 'not enough' resources
issue in this department whatever the cause.

If we're talking about ports, maybe a notification needs to be 
issued: "no new ports for now, please". Temporarily.

or maybe a limitation on what certain branches are supported, like
python (so support the latest upstream stable version only, for example)
Same goes for other stuff, like php8* and perl. Some things to lessen the load on
the people who ultimately review and apply patches into the tree.
Maybe review this when there's more of these folks around.

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