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Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 21:09:06 -0400
From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
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Subject: Port Submission Etiquette
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I would like to submit a new port which "RUN_DEPENDS" another port; the 
latter did not exist in the tree, so I submitted it (ports/123382) on May 4.  
I fully appreciate the committers' various responsibilities and time 
constraints, so this is not a 'hey, what's taking you so long' query.  Since 
this was my first submission, I am just trying to get a sense of proper 
etiquette.  Is it bad form to email the committer who took responsibility of 
the PR asking whether I've made a glaring mistake which would be fixable via 
a follow-up?  Or should I simply wait for a "feedback" request if that were 
the case?
       
Thanks.

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Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>