pkgmeek.8: revised the concluding paragraph under Program Design
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Time will only tell whether this design can be retained as core maintainers come and go. At the time
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Time will only tell whether this design can be retained as core maintainers come and go. At the time
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of writing, patch submissions on our bug tracker are nowhere near the volume they were in 2017.
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of writing, patch submissions on our bug tracker are nowhere near the volume they were in 2017.
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Either the interest in CRUX is waning (and could stand to be reinvigorated), or the would-be
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The patch submissions that do arrive are not dealt with in a timely manner, which is more easily
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contributors start paging through a legacy code base and lose confidence in their ability to help
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explained by a reduction in the number of core developers than by stipulating that CRUX package
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out. Whichever the explanation, \fBpkgmeek\fP is offered as a partial remedy to the problem that
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tools have reached full maturity and cannot gain much benefit from new patches. The next most
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"we don't have people that actually sign up to care about our core tools" (FS#1410).
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probable explanations for the slow response to bug reports are: 1, interest in CRUX is waning (and
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could stand to be reinvigorated), or 2, the would-be contributors start paging through a legacy code
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base and lose confidence in their ability to help out. If either of these latter explanations has
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any merit, \fBpkgmeek\fP is offered as a partial remedy to the problem that "we don't have people
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that actually sign up to care about our core tools" (FS#1410).
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.SH SEE ALSO
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pkgmk.conf(5), Pkgfile(5), pkgadd(8), pkgrm(8), pkginfo(8), rejmerge(8), signify(1), curl(1), wget(1)
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pkgmk.conf(5), Pkgfile(5), pkgadd(8), pkgrm(8), pkginfo(8), rejmerge(8), signify(1), curl(1), wget(1)
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