Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:04:01 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: requesting 'QA' assistance Message-ID: <20080409010401.3acf6cd4@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20080408154202.8ba77f81.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <80f4f2b20804081229k1aa5580eva6bfb607d84c05d3@mail.gmail.com> <20080408154202.8ba77f81.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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--Sig_/ejJLgXDBT0IrLGWvIUJ_17N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:42:02 -0400 Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: > In response to "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com>: >=20 > > I have something I'd like to add to ports eventually, but it isn't > > read yet. I was wondering what the preferred method of requesting > > users take a peek at it and tell me what they think/want. > >=20 > > The actual software would go under ports-mgmt, and has the main > > functionality intended. The actuall set of programs is called 'virtual > > ports', and it allows a keyword and virtual directory indexing of the > > ports tree. The goal is to allow people to play around with different > > designs of the ports tree without having to change the system ports > > tree - preventing breakage in programs, and giving both the users and > > maintainers of the ports tree more flexibility in organization. > >=20 > > Should I post the tbz file on my web server, and post a link on a > > mailing list, or post the copied/pasted shar to the mailing list > > (466kb, so I'm guessing /no/ to that one). > >=20 > > Should I post here or to -ports? >=20 > My opinion would be make a .tgz of the port directory and put it on > a web/ftp server somewhere, then post a link to the ports mailing list > asking folks to look at it and provide feedback. >=20 > Yes, a 466K shar file posted to the mailing list is going to tick a lot > of people off ;) .shar, .shar.gz, .tgz - whatever, put it somewhere and post a link to it on ports@ which is the best place for it. --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" FreeBSD committer -> itetcu@FreeBSD.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B --Sig_/ejJLgXDBT0IrLGWvIUJ_17N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkf769cACgkQBX6fi0k6KXv0bwCgq4+T9ADuZMJQNOwQSQeL6005 Jh8AnRQ8l0H5A9zScXz7KDDDHk6VXcBq =hw/6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ejJLgXDBT0IrLGWvIUJ_17N--
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