reason 23 why we've moved to linux

[Mark Linimon]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 09:12:48AM -0400, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
> last I checked there were over 1500 active ports related PR's alone.

Current count is 1851.  See http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsoverall.py .

The whole list is at:

  http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsprsbyexplanation.py?explanation=existing&sortby=prnumber&reverse .

I did a little rough data reduction for curiosity about changes related
to "new infra":

% grep -i clang foo | wc -l
      32
% grep -i stage foo | wc -l
      37
% grep -i staging foo | wc -l
      31
% grep -i options foo | wc -l
      31
% grep -i cflags foo | wc -l
       5
% grep USE_ foo | wc -l
      22
% grep WITH_ foo | wc -l
      19

as opposed to:

% grep -i update foo | wc -l
     280

NB: I didn't check for overlaps.

I was expected to see more "new infra" changes than 200.

I will note that about a third of the PRs are from the last 3 months.
I no longer have an insight into how fast PRs are turned over but it
is quite brisk.

mcl