More classes of maintainer

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Nov 5 18:36:41 UTC 2023


On 6/11/2023 05:26, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On 11/4/23 02:42, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> (Before we moved to github there were many people saying we'd get lots more commits by moving to it, but the volume doesn't seem much higher to me - of course, I also didn't measure before/after so my perception could be incorrect).
> 
> I think that's very, very wrong. There are vastly, vastly more community 
> submitted updates now, and they are easy to apply to the repository with 
> low effort on the part of the macports committers. It's been an 
> unequivocal win.

The data seems less certain on that: 
<https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/graphs/contributors>

There has been an increase in commit volume in more recent years, but it 
certainly didn't coincide with the GitHub migration in 2016.

  - Josh


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