Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:07:27 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Antoine Brodin <antoine@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "svn-ports-head@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-all@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r347539 - in head: biology/genpak biology/rasmol cad/chipmunk databases/typhoon databases/xmbase-grok devel/asl devel/flick devel/happydoc devel/ixlib devel/p5-Penguin-Easy editors/axe ... Message-ID: <20140327130726.GD93483@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAALwa8kUkOWQ9fW2VpxsqA97B3antHGob=Hn35H%2BS93Kc1%2Bfdw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201403082226.s28MQMtI079354@svn.freebsd.org> <20140327111602.GA57802@FreeBSD.org> <CAALwa8kUkOWQ9fW2VpxsqA97B3antHGob=Hn35H%2BS93Kc1%2Bfdw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 01:46:53PM +0100, Antoine Brodin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > E.g. I've set a few of my ports free (that is, relinquished control over to > > ports@) to let others do occasional updates or minor tweaks without having > > to wait for me to approve their changes. It works well enough for simple > > ports that are hard to damage by careless committing which had sadly become > > quite popular recently. > > This was a mistake on your side, if you care enough about a port but > don't want to update it (strange idea if the port is in a good shape), I do not want *not* to update it; I just don't want to prevent others from doing it as well. Surely it does not sound right for complex ports (like nvidia-driver), but it works well enough for simple ports that require a version bump or something like that once in a while. > you should keep yourself as a maintainer and add a comment like "Feel > free to update this port without prior approval", or give maintainership > to an active team that really cares about this port. The problem with this that we do not have an official way of stating such intents (apart from adding a comment to a port's Makefile, but that would add even more diversity to them which I'm trying to fight). > The ports tree is not the Museum of Antiquities. Many people (myself included) love Ports Collection because you often can find stuff that that is long gone (or never appeared) in any popular Linux distro. In that sense, it is not Museum of Antiquities, but an ultimate collection of available software that builds and probably works on FreeBSD. This is so awesome, I can't emphasize how well enough. I haven't need to google and ./configure && make && make install for hell of a time, unlike I still need to on GNU/Linux. Huge Port Collection is one of our winning points, not a nuisance. ./danfe
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