From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 1 23:45:46 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA56E3AC for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2013 23:45:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@grem.de) Received: from mail.grem.de (outcast.grem.de [213.239.217.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 183553C6 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2013 23:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31338 invoked by uid 89); 1 Jun 2013 23:39:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bsd64.grem.de) (mg@grem.de@93.215.160.212) by mail.grem.de with ESMTPA; 1 Jun 2013 23:39:03 -0000 Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 01:39:03 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin To: Eitan Adler Subject: Re: Any update on PR www/172195: PR database corrupts patches? Message-ID: <20130602013903.54ffa1a4@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20130601200332.3a8c3e62@bsd64.grem.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:45:46 -0000 On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 00:21:55 +0200 Eitan Adler wrote: > On 1 June 2013 20:03, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since I'm about to file a PR containing a patch to a UTF-8 encoded > > source file this [1] will hit me once again. Could anybody check if > > there is a fix for this? > > I doubt this was fixed. We are working on moving to a different bug > system and this is where most of the focus lies now. > Wouldn't it make sense to close the PR right now, stating something like "we're migrating to bug system XYZ and therefore won't fix this problem, please send patches containing UTF-8 characters by linking to an external site in the meantime"?. On a different note, do you already know which bug system will be used and when it will be deployed? Where would I find information about such developments *early*? I spent over an hour last week explaining how to file bugs / open PRs for FreeBSD to a colleague, walking him through the process, hoping that he will contribute back his fixes in the future - I would like to prevent such waste of time (and money, not every contributor is a google summer of code college student) in the future. Don't get me wrong, I think upgrading - and cleaning up - the infrastructure is important and I really appreciate the innovation that happened in the last 12-15 months, especially the hard work of those making it happen. I just find myself puzzled trying to find the current source of information at any given time, since it seems to be scattered all over the place (wiki, website/RSS, mailing lists, blogs, github, social networks etc.). This makes it harder to contribute for people not familiar with the project and even those who (used to) know it have a hard time sometimes. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Gmelin