Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:32:49 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: kris@FreeBSD.ORG, olgeni@uli.it, ruslan@shevchenko.kiev.ua, seb@bluetail.com, ade@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nbm@mithrandr.moria.org, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com, chad@DCFinc.com Subject: Re: erlang port -- a poster child (Re: I'll be rolling a 4.1.1 r Message-ID: <XFMail.000926123249.andrew@cream.org> In-Reply-To: <200009211227.IAA42894@misha.privatelabs.com>
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On 21-Sep-00 mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote: > On 21 Sep, Andrew Boothman wrote: > = On 21-Sep-00 Chad R. Larson wrote: > = >> =* If you are the MAINTAINER of a piece of code (or more likely a > = >> =port) and don't have commit privs, put "MAINTAINER update" in the > = >> =synopsis, for the same reasons as before. > = > I too am a bit worried. Are we saying that one of the ports > = > committers doesn't expect to do that job unless certain keywords are > = > in the PR? If so, that should be documented other than in e-mail > = > here. > = > = Not really, see Kris Kennaway's reply. > = > = I will write this up for the Handbook once we've decided on the > = wording though. > > Please, consider new PR-class(es) (port-update, port-maintainer) for > this -- that's much more formal, easier to search for and more obvious > for a person filling it the PR out. One person so far agreed and no one > objected... Right, I've left this several days to see if any GNATS-guru might appear and give us an opinion on getting some new PR classes added, because I know absolutely nothing about it. Nobody's come forward, so if no-one has any complaints, I'll write up a patch for the handbook to tell people to use the SYNOPSIS line, at least as a temporary improvement to the current situation. Any other comments? --- Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> http://sour.cream.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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