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Date:      Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:19:58 +0800
From:      Dryice Liu <dryice@hotpop.com>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [NEW PORT] stardict2-rptts
Message-ID:  <86ekierwr5.fsf@dryice.3322.org>
References:  <20041128062404.GA1689@frontfree.net> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411280030590.13326-100000@pancho>

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Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:

> I would suggest in such a case that you go ahead and send-pr with
> the text exactly as you posted, e.g. with just a link to the sharfile.
>
> The 'email-and-GNATS' solution is not ideal but at least that way
> there is something to track rather than just email to freebsd-ports,
> which has such high traffic that things like this just tend to get
> lost very quickly.
>

The porter's hand book suggest to compress and uuencode the shar file:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-submitting.html

This way the info is stored in database and won't get lost.

-- 
Cheers,
Dryice

http://dryice.3322.org



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