From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 12 2:38: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (ns.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F60037B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:37:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (root@vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.112]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f2CAboJ05626; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:37:53 +0200 Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2CAbpG82278; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:37:51 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3AACA6FE.9A3DAF16@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:37:50 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/csound Makefile References: <20010312041721.P2937-100000@blues.jpj.net> <3AACA1CC.22D17597@FreeBSD.org> <20010312022217.A56933@mollari.cthul.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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