From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 12:20:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B72116A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:20:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-out.hotpop.com (smtp-out.hotpop.com [38.113.3.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142FC43D60 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:20:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dryice@hotpop.com) Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [38.113.3.103]) by smtp-out.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A89CA69D9C for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:20:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hotpop.com (unknown [219.146.251.205]) by smtp-2.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F3DAA097B; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by hotpop.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:19:59 +0800 X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.1 (via feedmail 8 I) To: Mark Linimon References: <20041128062404.GA1689@frontfree.net> From: Dryice Liu Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:19:58 +0800 Message-ID: <86ekierwr5.fsf@dryice.3322.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [NEW PORT] stardict2-rptts X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:20:15 -0000 Mark Linimon 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