From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 22 17: 0:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DBD10EC3 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:00:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from suzy (modem12.masternet.it [194.184.65.22]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA21110; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:59:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <4.1.19990223014920.009f49d0@194.184.65.4> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:08:24 +0100 To: Ian Struble From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: Current unassigned ports problem reports Cc: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990223004527.00afdb80@194.184.65.4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 16.33 22/02/99 -0800, you wrote: >Don't worry too much about any 'newbie status'. Start with just a >few updates or pr's to get your feet wet. I am sure that someone would >notice a subject line of 're: ports/7500 - tested, please commit'. >Messages about old pr's will probably get someone's attention right? >Once you do a few of these someone will probably start thinking of you as >a 'trusted user' more than a newbie and the process will start moving >along faster. Uhm... I have send :-) 9616 abs (committed) 9672 xtail 9719 fortuneit 9836 delay 9923 10096 xtet 10104 pmars-0.8 10177 upgrade p5-mail-tools 1.12 10181 upgrade GIFGraph 1.10 But now I am not speaking for mine ports or for myself, I am doing a general discussion point. I think that everyone agree that if we lower the latency of a ports before committing we reach a better efficency point ... :-) I understand that we cannot make our ports tree a jungle of not working ports trying to accelerate the committing time, but when a port is tested is not usefull to anyone to leave it become unusefull in the limbo ... It is not an unusual thing for me to install the pr-ports I see in gnats area, because they are newer than those in the ports tree... It was so for postgreSQL, windowmaker and a lot of other... If you see the open Pr list you can understand what I am talking about ... Perhaps this situation don't boost or motivate people to send-pr of ports they have made for themselves, too... Thanks for your attention and for your time ... Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message