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Date:      Sun, 26 May 2013 11:57:33 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "svn-ports-head@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>, "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r318913 - in head/devel/libcfu: . files
Message-ID:  <20130526115733.GA72820@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CADLo8381BMoenETOv=zhMTecJnj6wOtNrs6BcGBqE_EJV5fFvg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201305232205.r4NM5MSa002349@svn.freebsd.org> <20130524033728.GE48975@FreeBSD.org> <CAF6rxgkN7=X3X8gjdUAUNE881vgZU87uH7-YnEAScBti15k=Jg@mail.gmail.com> <20130525024425.GC89166@FreeBSD.org> <CADLo83-E_f_B807XtUQzSccFjVPZDnLRFAJ6RePwCxa-ummr0w@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo8381BMoenETOv=zhMTecJnj6wOtNrs6BcGBqE_EJV5fFvg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 05:43:09PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 25 May 2013 10:01, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On 25 May 2013 03:44, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> Good maintainer typically would work with upstream to make sure their
> >> software builds and runs on FreeBSD with little possible special tuning
> >> required.  Not just it is "being nice", it also helps us to create and
> >> maintain image of an OS that is worth writing software for. [...]
> >
> > Yes, however this software hasn't been updated since 2005.
> >
> > I'll consider talking to upstream, but my priority at the time was to
> > just get the stuff building and working-- it was a Thursday night and
> > I had a load of Real Life work to do when I got the failure
> > notification.
> 
> While I was in the process of forking libcfu, I found someone else had
> it on github.
> 
> I've fixed the bugs and passed them to them, and updated the port to
> the new site at the same time.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion,

Awesome, thank you for putting time into this, with a nice result.

./danfe



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