Number of maintainers vs. number of ports

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Mon May 22 11:30:44 UTC 2006


On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:17:21PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> Just a quick notice:
> 
> Ports 18 months ago: 10796
> Maintainers 18 months ago: ~535
> 
> Ports now: 14727
> Maintainers now: ~393

That comes to an average of 37 ports per maintainer.  I assume this
includes ports at freebsd.org as one (1) maintainer, which would explain
the scary-looking 37:1 ratio.

It would be interesting to see these statistics generated for ports
that *are not* maintained by ports at freebsd.org.

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