New port?

[Mark Linimon]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Scott Lambert wrote:
> I've had them committed the same day or two months later.  The keyword
> of "depends" is very true and, for me, expected in an all volunteer
> project, especially one of this magnitude.

In general the new ports come in 'fast and furious' and it's a struggle
to keep up with them.  At http://www.freebsd.org/ports/growth/status.png
you can get an idea of how many get committed, but not how quickly once
submitted.

http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portsprsbyexplanation.py?explanation=new
will give you a good idea of what the backlog looks like at any given
moment.  As you can tell, the times vary all over the map, but my own
guess is that 3 weeks is probably both the median and the mode.

(Answering that question in any more detail would require me teaching
portsmon about "PR histories" and currently the code has no such
concept -- it only knows about the current state).

The only certainty is that new ports that can't be fetched, or don't
compile on both 4.x and 5.x, or have some other problem requiring an
exchange of email with the submitter, will take longer to get in than
ones which "just work" :-)

mcl