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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


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