Re:FreeBSD 12.2-BETA1
by i_miss_unix on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:03AM
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I do agree that the BSD ports maintainers are a fair bit slower than their Linux counterparts. Having said this, though, I do admire the way the port maintainers train up their replacements and/or add others with commit access. They mentor them. This does lead to higher code quality in the end. I fully agree with the notion that BSD is engineered whilst Linux is "grown". Good and bad to both approaches.
>I do admire the way the port maintainers train up their replacements and/or add others with commit access
Yes absolutely, and it's no question that packaging is really hard work, i wanna thank everyone that works on my most beloved system, ESPECIALLY the packagers.
Well BSD is dying was said already 15 years ago, BUT the project should be more responsive, an example:
You send in a patch with a updated port, and you wait 3 month until it's in the tree, in the meantime already a new version is out. I think if the users make the work and send in patches (just with a changed version-number and zero or nearly zero dependencies) some porters @ freebsd should act much quicker (some are super fast and helpfull but not as many), otherwise they will change the os or make there own fork of the package tree like i do.