Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:15:03 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ability for maintainers to update own ports Message-ID: <3FAF7337.6050708@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <1068458390.38101.19.camel@dirk.no.domain> References: <1068458390.38101.19.camel@dirk.no.domain>
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Sam Lawrance wrote: > Greetings all, > > Neglecting implementation details, has anybody considered the > possibility of allowing MAINTAINERs who don't have commit privileges to > somehow commit updates to ports they maintain? > > Where do people see problems lie with such an idea? (Eg. keeping the > tree sane, controlling access, vetting changes etc) > > I feel that a well thought out and implemented system could be highly > beneficial to everyone, reducing the number of ports PRs and letting > port updates flow through a little faster. > > Pick it to bits, if there are solutions I want to find them :) You might want to have a look into NetBSD's pkgsrc-wip: http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/ See Thomas's announcement to the tech-pkg MailingList for more details: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2003/03/25/0001.html It's not exactly what you propose, but a step in the same direction: get more people involved in the ports system.
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