Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:31:52 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> Cc: FreeBSD bugmaster <bugmaster@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD ports list <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current unassigned ports problem reports Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9902230926190.18680-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990222201448.009a2340@194.184.65.4>
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > Especially the ports will become "old" before they are committing ... Is > there something that can accelerate the commit procedure ? > What an normal user can do to help in this process ? > i.e. a deep testing , an install test and so on.. ? It can't hurt to do some testing whether the port builds, installs, packages, etc, properly, whether there are any cosmetic changes which should be made to the makefiles, etc. Adding a "This builds and runs fine for me under FreeBSD-x.y" to the GNATS logs can't hurt things (although I'd only bother for PRs which seem like they have been around for a while untouched). And if course, if there are any problems, providing patches will help the committer's job (I would guess this is a problem with a lot of the older FreeBSD port submissions in the tree - people seem to be pretty good at sweeping the database and committing working ports (Hi Steve :-)). Since PR replies get sent here, it will also probably jog the committers into actually doing something if they see activity on the PR :-) Kris ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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