From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 4 14:49:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7590437B401 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:49:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DCD243E4A for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:49:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1044830966.53daff@mired.org) Received: (qmail 78868 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2003 22:49:26 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 4 Feb 2003 22:49:26 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15936.17270.96718.508597@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:49:26 -0600 To: Stephen Cravey Cc: questions@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting patches applied? In-Reply-To: <20030204110301.W38138@www.gotbrains.org> References: <20030204110301.W38138@www.gotbrains.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030204110301.W38138@www.gotbrains.org>, Stephen Cravey typed: > A few general questions. > How does a committer choose which port PRs to tackle? > How does a committer choose which patches to apply? That probably varies from committer to committer. > How can I encourage a committer to apply my patch or even LOOK at my PR? Send a note to where committers hang out, giving them the PR number and a request. > How does one get a PR removed once the bug is either gone or clearly not > going to be fixed? Same as the above. > And are cosmetic patches to -RELEASEs and -STABLE pretty much wasted at > this point? Like documentation to LINT and man page corrections and > things? That depends on how far out of sync the sources the patch is against are with -CURRENT. > I've also got a number of cosmetic patches saved up, but I'm not sure > whether to send them as patches to -RELEASE 4 or 5 or -STABLE or -CURRENT > or all of the above. Sugestions please? Submitting patches against -CURRENT is the best solution. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message