[Bug 252186] [NEW PORT] audio/portmidi: Library for real time input and output of MIDI data

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252186

Timothy Beyer <beyert@cs.ucr.edu> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Timothy Beyer <beyert@cs.ucr.edu> ---
Dear FreeBSD ports committers,

Why wasn't I notified of the need for a port of audio/portmidi? My completed
port has been sitting in bugzilla since late last year, untouched for over 7
months, now pushing 8.  If a ports committer checked for new or open PRs, or
committed it way earlier (as early as late last year), it may have saved people
some time and effort.

If there was something wrong with it, I would have tried my best to address any
issues or shortcomings, with no upstream active at the time that I ported it. 
 I saw no activity or interest to get it committed, and while I applaud this
urgency to port niche but important libraries, I am pretty demotivated by the
way this went down and feel like I'm wasting my time.

I don't fault anyone for this happening, as the circumstances doesn't look like
there were ill intentions on anyone's part, but as it stands, I wasted a ton of
time porting it, only to have my work completely thrown away, or even given any
credit or recognition at all for a fairly difficult port as if my PR never
existed (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252186, and a
cursory search for "portmidi" reveals two PRs that I have authored).

This scenario could have been avoided completely if my PR were handled earlier
by committers, or if someone told me something that needed to be fixed if it
wasn't up to standard.

I understand that committers are tremendously overburdened, but I have a lot of
ports almost ready to go, just sitting here bitrotting, many like portmidi
since last year, and I don't ever want to put in a lot of time and energy again
to just have my work never used and ignored.  That's incredibly discouraging.

I applaud the new upstream of portmidi, who are taking a proactive approach and
are committed to supporting multiple platforms properly, and look forward to
working with them on getting some version of that work incorporated at a later
date.  I'm thrilled to see these ports happening, but I didn't expect to this
situation unfold in this particular way.

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