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Date:      Sun, 10 Oct 1999 01:56:39 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Submitting new ports to the ports tree.
Message-ID:  <19991010015639.B38786@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On [19991009 14:21], C J Michaels (cjm2@earthling.net) wrote:

>I know there is a good amount of work involved in this process, just from
>the sheer volume of work that is needed, but I was wondering if anyone knew
>the avg turn around time for a new port submission to be committed?

You betcha a lot of work.

The average turn around time? Let me clear this dream for you. It's a
volunteer based project, so whenever someone with enough rights feels
like he or she has the time to test [very important] and commit those
submissions.

That said though, our funky crowd of ports committers generally get back
on submissions within one or two weeks.

>Also, I have noticed that at any one time there are 150 - 200 unassigned,
>open "problems" listed for ports, a good number of which are just new or
>update ports submissions.  Is there anything else that someone like myself
>could do to assist with all that work?

Ehm, yes and no. =)

Yes, you can test the patches, port submission, or whatever the PR
details and mail you test results as a follouw-up to the PR.

No, you cannot help, since you need CVS commit rights to be able to
actually close the PR and commit everything needed.

Hope this answers your question a bit,

do feel free to read -ports and test, verify new submissions and let the
committers know of any results,

kind regards,

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
I believe because it is Impossible...


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