From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Aug 5 15:30:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE0B37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEE943E3B for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 17bqNE-0003Iq-00; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 00:30:48 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g75Lx2MI024450 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:59:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g75Lx2mK024449 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:59:02 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Current unassigned ports problem reports Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:59:01 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200208051800.g75I0KhX033983@freefall.freebsd.org> <86n0s117bu.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ken McGlothlen wrote: > You know, one thing that has to be kind of discouraging is the number of > pending port changes. There are over 250 new ports waiting > committment, dating back as far as August 9th of last year. And > nearly 30 updated ports, just sitting there, some of them for months. Importing new ports is work. First, the committer needs to carefully check the port. The quality of the submissions varies tremendously. Some ports can be committed right away with little or no changes, some need extensive reworking. Frequently, pointing out what's wrong to the submitters isn't enough, because they don't know how to fix it. Or worse, they don't care. The committer may end up re-writing the port himself. Communication with submitters can be cumbersome. Some people take several days to respond to e-mail. This is all very frustrating and tiring. > Perhaps another CVS tree (/usr/testports?), where non-committers can test the > submitted ports and provide feedback? There's nothing to stop people from testing uncommitted ports. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message