From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 25 20:59:03 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD82106564A for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:59:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DAD08FC1F for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.27]) by qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id mF0w1d02L0bG4ec52Lz32o; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:59:03 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id mLz11d00j1f6R9u3PLz2xx; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:59:03 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:59:00 -0800 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:59:00 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100225205859.GG191@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20100225211759.01fa3ef2.simpriv@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100225211759.01fa3ef2.simpriv@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: Bluefish 2.0.0 released! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:59:04 -0000 On Thu 25 Feb 2010 at 12:17:59 PST simpriv@gmail.com wrote: >News 2010 - February 15 - Bluefish 2.0.0 released! > >I can't find it in the latest ports collection. Others have explained how to contact the maintainer of a port, and how to determine that it has no maintainer. But perhaps some expectation-setting is needed here. Bluefish 2.0.0 was released a mere ten days ago. Before it will appear in the ports collection, two things have to happen. First the maintainer must modify the port as needed to get it to compile on FreeBSD. Sometimes that's trivially simple, sometimes it's diabolically complex. If the port is depended upon by others, for example, there might be a need to coordinate the update with them. So it's not unusual for the maintainer's part of the porting process to take several days or even weeks. Second, after the maintainer has submitted a PR with the update, the committers need to test it. That takes time. Also, judging by what I can see in the list of currently-open PR's, many committers always have a dozen or more in process. It's not uncommon (or unreasonable) that this part of the porting process will take several days or even weeks in addition to the time the maintainer needed.