Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:38:46 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers/rar Makefile Message-ID: <20100327113846.GO18698@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <20100326193949.bd1e6ea2.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <201003261123.o2QBNGZT002851@repoman.freebsd.org> <4BACAE9B.4060800@kovesdan.org> <20100326233439.GA28984@lonesome.com> <20100326193949.bd1e6ea2.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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--dIV3CY5swYZsO92m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:39:49PM -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:34:39 -0500 > Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> mentioned: >=20 > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 06:39:51PM +0545, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > > > It would be nice to receive a failure notification about such things.= I =20 > > > didn't get anything neither for this one nor for the previous one. Th= ese =20 > > > notifications worked before and there were no commits like this witho= ut =20 > > > notifying the maintainer. > >=20 > > I guess I've erred on the side of not notifying people about breakages = on > > systems that we don't have tinderboxen for, just to avoid filling up > > people's mailboxes. What do other people think? Am I making a mistake? > >=20 > > (Yes, in a perfect world we have tinderboxen for these ...) > >=20 >=20 > I think it's right thing to do for now. Most people don't have any resou= rces > to fix/test these, and it's not a tier1 platform, so I don't think it make > much sense to bother people with these failures. >=20 Also, it requires a lot of effort to keep track of these failures, which have had a message sent, how long ago, and if more than x days without reply or commit, mark it broken. Given those are Tier-2 platforms and the low frequency of errors, I would say that portmgr can use their time better on other matters. -erwin --=20 Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Prediction is very difficult especially about the future erwin@FreeBSD.org --dIV3CY5swYZsO92m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFLre5Gqy9aWxUlaZARAiygAJ92nAjKp2cfzbeq1lFhbKdREviy4QCgtdpN IYTC1MXlxIa3kPVUTR3phLk= =kt8l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dIV3CY5swYZsO92m--
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