Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:45:37 -0500 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Big Lebowski <spankthespam@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays? Message-ID: <CAGBxaX=t3e5SXoBDHnzAbx=SWbEFMJHNPQL13FnwNgKWM3gCiA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHcXP%2Bf6e-t--XbQPTH1goJp_CL7P=zTj5trZVWd4YZ_EsO9gw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHcXP%2Bf6e-t--XbQPTH1goJp_CL7P=zTj5trZVWd4YZ_EsO9gw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Big Lebowski <spankthespam@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what is > the problem? It seems to me, as a ports contributor, that this time is only > growing, not shrinking, and there's no formal/automated procedures that > would help in managing the issue. > > Today I found myself fighting with ezjail only to discover it has issues > working on FreeBSD 10.0-R. Great, I thought, there must be something else, > so I went to make the research. It appears there isnt much more, and the > alternatives are qjail that seems to be quite dated and zjails, that's not > in ports. Not long after looking into zjails, what seems to be a great > tool, I found its port submission sits there since... September 2013. Now, > given the fact the Docker is on mouth of everyone, and containers are > getting a lot of attention, FreeBSD looks really bad with no tools to > manage such great technology like Jails, especially when ezjail, unofficial > industry standard to manage jails, is now broken and zjails waits to be > accepted (or even rejected) for so much time. > > Why not test on a VM instead of a jail it seems this is a even more accurate test because you can run bare metal installs (I have run to some ports [including some of my own]) that worked with jail/tinderbox but failed a full bare metal install. Take a look at -virtualization@ for ideas, the proposed handbook entry on virtualization ( http://www.petitecloud.org) or just use a front end like petitecloud (yes yet an other port waiting for comitting [one this one there are some bugs though]) What is the problem? Isnt there enought commiters? Isnt there a automated > PR handling procedure reminding commiters with relevant access about such > submissions? Can we help? I hope to spark some discussion. > I have made a couple of scripts for automated this for specific ports but not for all (the VM test method)... if you want I can post them (they are high;y specific to installing the petitecloud port though) -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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