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Date:      Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:43:29 +0000
From:      "Baptiste Daroussin" <bapt@freebsd.org>
To:        "Tomoaki AOKI" <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Splitting pkgmgr and portmgr
Message-ID:  <93b8d8009f3cb14823c769ce12d61f38c3fae4c7@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20221007203835.d9988335cfe98d6ca321c85e@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
References:  <20221007203835.d9988335cfe98d6ca321c85e@dec.sakura.ne.jp> <20221007104923.7a2whzyq6ocnhsju@aniel.nours.eu>

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October 7, 2022 at 1:38 PM, "Tomoaki AOKI" <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> wr=
ote:


>=20
>=20On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:49:23 +0200
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20>=20
>=20> Hello everyone,
> >=20=20
>=20>  It's been a while since the ports management team (portmgr) needed=
 some
> >  modernization and updates. To meet today's requirements, we are taki=
ng a first
> >  step: spliting portmgr and pkgmgr.
> >=20=20
>=20>  While portmgr's charter does not change, the part of the responsib=
ility
> >  regarding the packages management will now be delegated to pkgmgr un=
der the
> >  portmgr umbrella.
> >=20=20
>=20>  Package management (pkgmgr) team:
> >  - its role is to work on the technical side of the package productio=
n:
> >  + building official packages.
> >  + running exp-runs.
> >  + maintaining and upgrading the package build infrastructure.
> >  - This team will be composed of people that are not part of the port=
mgr team
> >  (no votes for instance) but still will receive the portmgr emails (l=
ike
> >  lurkers) in a advisory function. Working on the package build
> >=20
>=20
> It would be worth considering to contain INDEX build.
> Not all, but some of the causes of broken INDEX also causes package
> builds.
>=20
>=20For these cases, giving the authority of forcibly fix/revert
> offending commit(s) to pkgmgr should greatly help, especially for
> commits just before weekly package build starts.

We cannot list everything, but yes it is considered part of it.

Best regards,
Bapt



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