Number of maintainers vs. number of ports

Cheng-Lung Sung clsung at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 23 08:49:59 UTC 2006


On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:25:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:28:11PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > Haha, there are some non-ASCII chars in INDEX, and I use
> > UTF-8 locale, which made my search inaccurate.
> > 
> > This is closer to the truth:
> > 
> > Maintainers 18 months ago: ~1192
> > Maintainers now: ~1469
> > 
> > cut -f6 -d\| INDEX | tr A-Z a-z | sort -u | wc -l
> 
> Nevertheless, I'd still like to see more maintaine{rs,d ports}.  We
> now have a nice document about "what it means to be a maintainer", so
> I think we should start doing some outreach to bring new people in.

    As a maintainer of 103 ports, maybe I should release lots of ports.

    Ref: http://beta.inerd.com/portscout/
    
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Cheng-Lung Sung - clsung@
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