Why I am retiring from contributing to FreeBSD

[franco]

I suppose you are right.  I can only give my outside perspective here.  There's definitely a structural issue at play here that makes inclusion and mutual respect wishes on a paper more than anything that is lived by.  I believe we can all agree on a technical patch that goes throw a review process.  FreeBSD has all the tools and interested people to do it.  The unspoken exercised culture, however, is one of lack of accountability and likely hard to overcome to be more goal oriented, open and collaborative.  Things that nobody else cares about are not tended to even if contributions exist.  This is where FreeBSD loses traction that would be an easy win.

Now at least some of my ports found no delay in maintainership which I find good and strange at the same time as if this behaviour fixes a structural problem the ports were having.  I hope that incentive lasts, yet ports already start falling behind with CVEs and upstream releases out in the wild.  Very happy that's not the case for our users, because there is an established process: test -> commit -> ship -> enjoy  :)


Cheers,
Franco