Somehow, my contributions to NetBSD and pkgsrc have become monotonous. Because I am busy with work, family and real life, the amount of time I can spend on open source is fairly limited, and I have two commitments that I try to fulfill:
- Member of pkgsrc-releng: I process most of the pull-ups to the stable quarterly branch.
- Maintainer of Go and its infrastructure.
Unfortunately, these things are always kinda the same.
For the pull-ups, each ticket requires a verification build to see if the package in question actually works. That time tends to be dominated by Firefox builds, of all things: we fortunately have people that maintain the very regular updates to LTS versions of both firefox and tor-browser, but that means regular builds of those.
As for Go, there are regular updates to the two supported branches (1.14 and
1.15 as of now), some of which are security updates. This means: change
version, sync PLIST, commit, revbump all Go packages. Maybe file a pull-up.
This becomes somewhat uninteresting after a while.
What To Do
Honestly, I am not sure. Give off some of the responsibility? There is only one person in the pkgsrc-releng team that actually does pull-ups, and they are busy as well.