From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 9 18:44:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749E71508B for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 18:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA24343; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:43:56 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:43:55 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Terry Lambert Cc: brett@lariat.org, wes@softweyr.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: volunteering (was Re: Ports) In-Reply-To: <199903100127.SAA19325@usr06.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > Actually, I've often wondered what effort, if any, was given over to > pushing FreeBSD patches back from the ports tree to the original > maintainers of the code? This obviously gets done some. I remember this happening for the pine port and a few others (asapm, xosview, etc). Back when I had time to maintain the AfterStep port I was stuffing back the patches to the development team, which they appreciated. When the first AS-devel port came out I had 5 or 6 patches in there and now there are none (admittedly the distribution has changed as they don't include all of the AS apps anymore but...). It's definitely the way to go. > Brett? If you are still interested in volunteering on some code > project, this would be one for which the powers that be could neither > hinder nor veto. An excellent opportunity for a cowboy... Brett Taylor *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message