Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:37:50 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/csound Makefile Message-ID: <3AACA6FE.9A3DAF16@FreeBSD.org> References: <20010312041721.P2937-100000@blues.jpj.net> <3AACA1CC.22D17597@FreeBSD.org> <20010312022217.A56933@mollari.cthul.hu>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:15:40PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Trevor Johnson wrote: > > > > > > This port does not currently compile. > > > > > > > > Noticed by: bento > > > > > > Hi, Kris. I'm the maintainer for this port. In the future, if you notice > > > something like this in one of my ports, please do not simply mark the port > > > BROKEN, but instead try to contact me, as is customary (see the "Developer > > > Relations" section in the Committer's Guide). In this case, if you still > > > have the error log, please send it (or a URL for it) to me. I could not > > > find it in http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/4-full/ nor in > > > http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/5-full/ . If the log no longer exists, > > > kindly back out this commit, because I'm not aware of any problems with > > > the port (except being marked BROKEN ;) ). > > > > > > If you plan to do this to other ports, keep in mind that recent changes > > > may not be reflected in the bento builds. For example, I updated the > > > csound port on Thursday. > > > > I wholeheartedly support this sentence as I (and I'm sure most of the active > > maintainers) don't like to see somebody gratuitously marking ports "BORKEN" (or > > doing any other unapproved actions) just because he saw some errors on bento, > > especially without any attempt to contact the maintainer in question. Moreover, > > the problem may be only with specific branch, or with local setup, while BROKEN > > mark will prevent port from building on all branches. > > > > Yet again: Kris, please respect maintainers! > > Bah..I tested the build, verified that it failed, and committed the > change to note as such. Just don't do it, otherwise you will be engaged into such discussions regularly. I know because I used to behave like that in the very recent past, until realised that I have other things to do in my spare time instead of arguing with angry maintainers. > If more maintainers actually checked bento > regularly, we wouldn't have so many broken ports in the tree. We are not living in the perfect world, unfortunately... :( -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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