From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 17:21:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850B916A420 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:21:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434CA13C459 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:21:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from [85.172.12.169] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by services.ipt.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1IjI0r-000GDn-1N; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:21:25 +0400 To: "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" References: <2365F582-9CA6-4E21-AF82-42791A2F8E10@gmail.com> <471A0C34.6060505@gmx.de> <32214370@ipt.ru> <471A32F2.3060402@gmx.de> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:24:27 +0400 In-Reply-To: <471A32F2.3060402@gmx.de> (Kamikaze's message of "Sat\, 20 Oct 2007 18\:55\:14 +0200") Message-ID: <44692164@ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Q , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Appropriate way of submitting multiple related ports at once? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:21:36 -0000 On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:55:14 +0200 [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > Boris Samorodov wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:09:56 +0200 [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > >> Q wrote: > > > >>> I have written a collection of ports (16 in total) for building a > >>> typical Apple WebObjects deployment environment. As most of these ports > >>> depend on one another in some way could someone advise what the most > >>> appropriate way to submit these ports as a bundle would be? > > > >> Why don't you just pack them all into a single shar archive and submit them as > >> one PR? That's what I'd do. > > > > I'd say that this depends upon the sibmitters' experience with ports > > PRs. If there is none committers' questions, etc at the PR - it's > > fine. Otherwise I'd prefer to deal with ports per PR. > Well, you can submit several shar files in one PR and they can be tested, > patched and commited one by one. The PR simply would be closed after all ports > have successfully been committed. Seems I was not clear, sorry. It so happens that I usually send two-four followups per ports PR for a submitter to polish the patches (BTW, nobody complained so far). In that case if all ports are at one PR that may become a nightmare. ;-) WBR -- bsam