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Date:      Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:24:35 +0400
From:      Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts addport
Message-ID:  <44AC03E3.2080802@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <81321503@bsam.ru>
References:  <200607042312.k64NCAif016030@repoman.freebsd.org>	<20060705022401.GA35718@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw>	<20060705061907.0dfcaf00.lehmann@ans-netz.de>	<20060705122804.GL20915@droso.net> <81321503@bsam.ru>

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Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:28:04 +0200 Erwin Lansing wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:19:07AM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
>>> Cheng-Lung Sung wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's great. Thanks.
>>> And probably useless to prevent any spam.
> 
>> Not probably, but certainly. The address will still be listed in GNATS,
>> the Makefile, several mailinglists, just to name some. It doesn't gives
>> us any prevention against spam and only goes to make working with commit
>> logs harder. Although there is no maintainer for Tools/, I also dislike
>> this kind of drive-by commits to such widely used tools without prior
>> discussion.
> 
> And it is documented:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.html#Q12.6.3.
> -----
> 12.6.3. Are there any other files I am not allowed to touch?
> 
> Any file directly under ports/, or any file under a subdirectory that
> starts with an uppercase letter (Mk/, Tools/, etc.). In particular,
> the ports management team is very protective of ports/Mk/bsd.port*.mk
> so do not commit changes to those files unless you want to face his
> wra(i)th.

I think it's obsoleted. These days only bsd.port*.mk are strongly protected.

Moreover I'm sure Renato is a person who can make addport better.
His change-pr script rocks! :-)

-- 
Dixi.
Sem.



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