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Date:      Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:38:46 +0100
From:      Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers/rar Makefile
Message-ID:  <20100327113846.GO18698@droso.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100326193949.bd1e6ea2.stas@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201003261123.o2QBNGZT002851@repoman.freebsd.org> <4BACAE9B.4060800@kovesdan.org> <20100326233439.GA28984@lonesome.com> <20100326193949.bd1e6ea2.stas@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:39:49PM -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:34:39 -0500
> Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> mentioned:
>=20
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 06:39:51PM +0545, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> > > It would be nice to receive a failure notification about such things.=
 I =20
> > > didn't get anything neither for this one nor for the previous one. Th=
ese =20
> > > notifications worked before and there were no commits like this witho=
ut =20
> > > notifying the maintainer.
> >=20
> > I guess I've erred on the side of not notifying people about breakages =
on
> > systems that we don't have tinderboxen for, just to avoid filling up
> > people's mailboxes.  What do other people think?  Am I making a mistake?
> >=20
> > (Yes, in a perfect world we have tinderboxen for these ...)
> >=20
>=20
> I think it's right thing to do for now.  Most people don't have any resou=
rces
> to fix/test these, and it's not a tier1 platform, so I don't think it make
> much sense to bother people with these failures.
>=20
Also, it requires a lot of effort to keep track of these failures, which
have had a message sent, how long ago, and if more than x days without
reply or commit, mark it broken.  Given those are Tier-2 platforms and
the low frequency of errors, I would say that portmgr can use their time
better on other matters.

-erwin

--=20
Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
Prediction is very difficult
especially about the future                    erwin@FreeBSD.org

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