Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:20:36 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, brett@lariat.org, wes@softweyr.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: volunteering (was Re: Ports) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9903101309030.30652-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199903100127.SAA19325@usr06.primenet.com>
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On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > Actually, I've often wondered what effort, if any, was given over > to pushing FreeBSD patches back from the ports tree to the original > maintainers of the code? It's pretty much up to the maintainer, and depends on how amenable the developers are to discussion of changes. If the patches provide a functional change, or fix build incompatabilities, chances are fairly good it will be accepted back into the next version (I've seen lots of these). In my experience most authors of small (e.g. Linux-developed) code projects are only too pleased to accept patches which provide FreeBSD support, so they can get their name in lights on freshmeat with "Now provides XXX compatability" in the release announcement :-) A lot of the patches in the ports tree are just tweaking to massage things into the FreeBSD directory scheme, which aren't so likely to be merged (unless the author was doing something stupid like installing files into a blatantly bad place). There are a lot of patches which provide demonstrable benefit however. > One thing that someone could contribute would be to go through the > various patches, and roll them back (if they aren't just hacks) to There are quite a few hacks which would need to be cleaned up before being merged - i.e. breaking compatability with non-freebsd builds. Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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