Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:03:22 +0200 From: Alphons van Werven <freebsd@skysmurf.nl> To: Kevin Golding <kpg@caomhin.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: blanket portmgr approval vs. non-fixing changes Message-ID: <20160628110322.GA51760@spectrum.skysmurf.nl> In-Reply-To: <op.yjrc3knw57n2so@thoth.home> References: <201606272021.u5RKLVhQ057899@slippy.cwsent.com> <op.yjrc3knw57n2so@thoth.home>
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--LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kevin Golding wrote: > and about the same time someone did a blanket update of RUN_DEPENDS in > my ports. Including a PORTREVISION bump. It's easy to argue that's a > very trivial change that doesn't needs maintainer involvement, but it > also impacted my day. [snip] > Had I known about the blanket update I could've rolled that into my > updates or something, but it was just suddenly there. There was no > public warning of that change coming Maintainers are already notified by e-mail of commits resulting from PRs because they are put on the CC list. Maybe it's just me, but I think it would be very nice if maintainers were *always* automagically notified of *any* commits to their ports, including those subject to blanket approval. With any luck, such notifications are received in time to prevent (or at least limit) wasted time such as in the above case. Moreover, keeping maintainers informed also eliminates having to wonder "Ey, what's this 'ere then?" the next time they look at their ports. And finally, I'd surmise it would also help keeping maintainers abreast of developments in the ports infrastructure in general. I know that the PR notifications come from BugZilla and not from SVN, so what I don't know is how feasible it is rig up something like this, but I do know that I for one would quite appreciate something along these lines. Fonz (bla bla bla, something about two cents, bla bla bla) --=20 A.J. "Fonz" van Werven mailsig: Ob technicas difficultates, lux in fine cuniculum non operatur. --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXcll6AAoJEAfP7gJTaCe83FYQAMmru5vp6HBPp+nXfA4MFKZX jvAL4rcyngCvpHMsPLMBIJaX6fRD5eK7YJuEG+jXdxe91L59a1/m4cdD+xiQxn05 fAvVzrtSu+kuhYbn+z6lB8/Y9L7qZLGrZdbHvNuPUSOJHmC/eqDkGICz97SDJxJo GLYh7mMdyprtVr3NZ84DEJCYXkl3eKQ7G+k62AfDvTaKb/3n7oP9YKBmNhQ/CmrO IQ6nudv0umHvjxoHtbRvGbY8hwfaamLjeDbZftT80zIOGQRpqxWPXwpCrOI3jRPV NtjFv9ohyGu3xVW49Dvz65T1AFCIj8oLq6GQQECGgvy6WKNbYfzjtciiS1272T7M FCpOF5gqQ+OriBhSF/TkKxmwDm22Fw76ncieaDrHxTG7qEdFQ8YScqH8SWQhxdaK sV14ORE2A/38NNL29KDS7L/GKqumqOeC4GuzVYGAdDpsUr38YrwNr1MVxywsCXU9 pXBFyyYsaZMP2wV32+LIEMPk5b35Qgp9Wm3/ugwP/CtHGRaN2WmLLntVACapUAMJ Cr8qjhMnncwXdDeZfJSdr/bg0SRdXe1h8lxykqYt71S59Dx7muFqykrhspNwjCOp xZtCyCU1hqSsXNOcQBuJ/7wns6StPoUCcuhAzCD6gjQfgbmM4+NIbbpKaC+tBLO9 0156NkzemiNmK+GzpnU9 =yMf4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X--
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