From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 9 16:56:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD0914D22 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 16:56:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.198.188]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA656; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 01:56:34 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA39921; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 01:56:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 01:56:39 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: C J Michaels Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Submitting new ports to the ports tree. Message-ID: <19991010015639.B38786@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <002601bf1250$0b9597e0$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <002601bf1250$0b9597e0$0200000a@weeble.dyndns.org> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991009 14:21], C J Michaels (cjm2@earthling.net) wrote: >I know there is a good amount of work involved in this process, just from >the sheer volume of work that is needed, but I was wondering if anyone knew >the avg turn around time for a new port submission to be committed? You betcha a lot of work. The average turn around time? Let me clear this dream for you. It's a volunteer based project, so whenever someone with enough rights feels like he or she has the time to test [very important] and commit those submissions. That said though, our funky crowd of ports committers generally get back on submissions within one or two weeks. >Also, I have noticed that at any one time there are 150 - 200 unassigned, >open "problems" listed for ports, a good number of which are just new or >update ports submissions. Is there anything else that someone like myself >could do to assist with all that work? Ehm, yes and no. =) Yes, you can test the patches, port submission, or whatever the PR details and mail you test results as a follouw-up to the PR. No, you cannot help, since you need CVS commit rights to be able to actually close the PR and commit everything needed. Hope this answers your question a bit, do feel free to read -ports and test, verify new submissions and let the committers know of any results, kind regards, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best I believe because it is Impossible... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message