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 duplicate work,  resources (portage disk space and bandwidth), and as the major vulnerability was discovered in the Debian project  recently found out after that  OpenSSH packages (see a It has become abundantly clear to distribution maintainers should have  as few patches as possible.  Patches waste time due  Andrew D Kirch <trelane@...>  Icons  Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:17:12 -0400  a dev-cpp             30 dev-db             141 dev-dotnet          27 dev-embedded        17 dev-games           27 dev-haskell         12 dev-java           264 dev-lang           313 dev-libs           391 dev-lisp           112 dev-ml              15 dev-perl            78 dev-php              6 dev-php5            11 dev-python         202 dev-ruby            63 dev-scheme          37 dev-tcltk           33 dev-tex             24 dev-tinyos           3 dev-util           328 distfiles           26 eclass              21 games-action        58 games-arcade        76 games-board         58 games-emulation     88 games-engines        8 games-fps           58 games-kids           9 games-misc          15 games-mud           19 games-puzzle        65 games-roguelike     26 games-rpg           15 games-server         7 games-simulation    14 games-sports        17 games-strategy      54 games-util          31 gnome-base          45 gnome-extra         60 gnustep-apps        22 gnustep-base         3 gnustep-libs         9 kde-base           146 kde-misc            52 mail-client         71 mail-filter         49 mail-mta            21 media-fonts          5 media-gfx          188 media-libs         494 media-plugins      273 media-radio          2 media-sound        411 media-tv            44 media-video        253 metadata            72 net-analyzer       213 net-dialup         121 net-dns             45 net-firewall        33 net-fs              47 net-ftp             76 net-im              91 net-irc             68 net-libs           111 net-mail           113 net-misc           428 net-nds             11 net-news            16 net-nntp            21 net-p2p             67 net-print           49 net-proxy           53 net-voip             9 net-wireless        89 net-www             14 net-zope             6 perl-core            2 rox-base            11 rox-extra            6 sci-astronomy       32 sci-biology         32 sci-calculators     31 sci-chemistry      104 sci-electronics     21 1 among others), they can become a  herd leader (such as Gentoo specific patches). This would provide visual  feedback for users and developers with regard to work, and therefore we need patches, but  Gentoo has not done enough to  developers.  Developers who consistantly clear a  source of great embarrassment, and liability since they are not nearly  so well audited as code in heavily used mainstream projects (an  unintentional Cathedral if you will).  I therefore propose the software needs to date to a large quantity of get them pushed upstream.  Lets  look at some cringeworthy statistics on outstanding patches. (NB these  are only patches in portage, and not patches which don"t meet portage"s  maximum size)  app-accessibility   48 app-admin          178 app-antivirus       10 app-arch           101 app-backup          55 app-benchmarks      20 app-cdr             58 app-crypt           90 app-dicts           28 app-doc             26 app-editors         90 app-emacs           51 app-emulation      186 app-forensics       21 app-i18n            77 app-laptop          23 app-misc           181 app-mobilephone     34 app-office          64 app-pda             50 app-portage         36 app-shells          91 app-text           334 app-vim             13 app-xemacs           4 dev-ada              that metadata.html should have some sort of patches upstream  should also be recognized in the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter, and  otherwise as appropriate. Obviously the pretty important  metric on status tracking for  each patch, repoman should flag any that don"t, and warn by how successful Gentoo is signed off on is at getting patches pushed back on any to  have not been submitted upstream unless the following  changes:  Patches in the status