On 31.07.2016 22:47, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 31.07.2016 22:32, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 06:51:10PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >>> I've prepared a list of such problematic to maintain packages. >>> >>> If you are still a user and you could volunteer your time, feel free to >>> remove from this list software you care about by improving support for >>> your platform in upstream. >>> >>> http://netbsd.org/~kamil/top-200-packages-with-the-greatest-number-of-patches-20160731.txt >>> >>> Current top-10: >>> wip/chromium-new 448 >>> wip/chromium 333 >>> wip/virtualbox 211 >>> mail/thunderbird38 174 >>> security/tor-browser 171 >>> www/firefox38 166 >>> www/firefox31 165 >>> mail/thunderbird31 160 >>> mail/thunderbird24 157 >>> x11/xview-lib 156 >> >> That's not a very useful list. The Mozilla core has a bad record for >> accepting patches and even if they do, there are lots of older versions >> that needing them. xview-lib is just dead upstream, so not very useful >> either. Chromium is similar yet different to Mozilla in that upstream >> has expressed a clear disinterest in anything not Windows, Linux or OSX. >> >> Joerg >> > > These ones are for diehards... but still for every merged patch in > upstream -> easier maintainership in future. > > I'm upstreaming NetBSD code right now in VirtualBox and I'm > repetitiously poking Chromium developers. With a legion of contributors > we can make the NetBSD desktop better. > For the reference - the first patch ever for NetBSD has been merged with Chromium: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/969759f9970274b3aa8eae234b3d23eba398887d
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