From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Nov 15 14:34:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837F437B401 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6969243E42 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:34:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAFMYVc7001963; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:34:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAFMYVfV001962; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:34:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:34:31 -0500 From: AlanE To: Philip Paeps Cc: FreeBSD Ports List Subject: Re: Mass dumping of ports Message-ID: <20021115223431.GA1934@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Reply-To: alane@geeksrus.net Mail-Followup-To: Philip Paeps , FreeBSD Ports List References: <20021115044127.GA29704@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20021115200113.GG265@juno.home.paeps.cx> <20021115210935.GA67740@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20021115211853.GI265@juno.home.paeps.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021115211853.GI265@juno.home.paeps.cx> X-message-flag: Every program expands until it can send mail. Except Exchange Server. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:18:53PM +0100, Philip Paeps wrote: >On 2002-11-15 16:09:36 (-0500), AlanE wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 09:01:13PM +0100, Philip Paeps wrote: >> > On 2002-11-14 23:41:27 (-0500), AlanE wrote: >> > > I'm also prettu much dumping anything Perl-related (including the PRs >> > > that I owned on p5- ports) because, frankly, although I can write perl, >> > > I can sometimes even read it, but I do *not* like it as a language. >> > > Please, do *not* start a flamewar or even a thread over this decision or >> > > this statement; it is merely my personal opinion. >> > >> > I'm willing to take these over from you. I spend most of my waking hours >> > writing (and often also reading :-)) Perl and getting Perl-module-ports to >> > work properly. >> >> Everything got set to freebsd-ports, so whatever's set to that is up for >> grabs. > >This may sound like a silly question, but how would I grab hold of them? I >don't think the procedure for taking up ports is documented anywhere? If it >is, a pointer would be nice. :-) > If you are a ports-committer, you change the maintinaer field to your @freeebsd.org address and commit the change. If you are not a ports committer, you change the maintainer field as abovve, do a diff -u against the original file, and include that diff undex "Fix" in a problem report using send-pr. The PR should be of type "change-request". -- AlanE (Alan Eldridge), who likes fixing weird distributed systems bugs. Unix/C(++) IT Pro for 20 yrs, desperately seeking employment in NYC. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.rtf) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message