From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 22 15: 2:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.36.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5451113AE; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:02:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au) Received: from bragg (bragg [129.127.36.34]) by adelphi.physics.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/UofA-1.5) with SMTP id JAA13712; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:32:00 +1030 (CST) Received: from localhost by bragg; (5.65/1.1.8.2/05Aug95-0227PM) id AA08471; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:31:52 +1030 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:31:52 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway X-Sender: kkennawa@bragg To: Gianmarco Giovannelli Cc: FreeBSD bugmaster , FreeBSD ports list , asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current unassigned ports problem reports In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990222201448.009a2340@194.184.65.4> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > Especially the ports will become "old" before they are committing ... Is > there something that can accelerate the commit procedure ? > What an normal user can do to help in this process ? > i.e. a deep testing , an install test and so on.. ? It can't hurt to do some testing whether the port builds, installs, packages, etc, properly, whether there are any cosmetic changes which should be made to the makefiles, etc. Adding a "This builds and runs fine for me under FreeBSD-x.y" to the GNATS logs can't hurt things (although I'd only bother for PRs which seem like they have been around for a while untouched). And if course, if there are any problems, providing patches will help the committer's job (I would guess this is a problem with a lot of the older FreeBSD port submissions in the tree - people seem to be pretty good at sweeping the database and committing working ports (Hi Steve :-)). Since PR replies get sent here, it will also probably jog the committers into actually doing something if they see activity on the PR :-) Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message