Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:54:05 +0900 (JST) From: Hideyuki KURASHINA <rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> To: linimon@lonesome.com Cc: portmgr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFD: changes to the Porter's Handbook about proposing new categories Message-ID: <20041223.155405.116369681.rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412191717510.2227-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412191717510.2227-100000@pancho>
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Hi, Mark,
>>> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:29:39 -0600 (CST), Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> said:
> After checking where to direct someone who was inquiring about this, I
> found that what I had written last time was in the Committer's Handbook
> and effectively assumes that the proposer is a committer. What the
> following patch does is split the existing text into two pieces and
> moves the general piece to the Porter's Handbook, after adding several
> paragraphs along the way. Since it affects policy, portmgr@ is copied.
>
> (The patch does not include removing the text that moves, yet; the
> implied change is fairly obvious and would collide with my other
> outstanding patch to the CH.)
>
> Unless there are objections, I'd like to commit this text within the
> next day or so.
Please excuse my reply was late, but I found 1 small typo and 1 style
problem.
> @@ -1965,6 +1948,126 @@
> imported to the wrong category only to be moved right away.
> This causes unnecessary and undesirable bloat in the master
> source repository.</para>
> + </sect2>
> +
> + <sect2 id="proposing-categories">
> + <title>Proposing a new category</title>
> +
> + <para>As the Ports Collection has grown over time, various new
> + categories have been introduced. New categories can either
> + be <emphasis>virtual</emphasis> categories—those that do
> + not have a corresponding subdirectory in the ports tree—
> + or <emphasis>physical</emphasis> categories—those that
> + do. The following text dicusses the issues involved in creating
discusses
> + <itemizedlist>
> + <listitem>
> + <para><filename>Makefile</filename>s for the
> + new ports once they are repocopied</para>
[...]
> + <step>
> + <para>Since it affects the ports infrastructure and involves
> + not only performing repo-copies but also possibly running
should be ``repocopies'' for consistancy with above item?
> + regression tests on the build cluster, the PR should be
> + assigned to the &a.portmgr;.</para>
> + </step>
-- rushani
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