From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 23 06:55:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD9A16A4CF for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:55:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wasley.bl.mmtr.or.jp (wasley.bl.mmtr.or.jp [210.228.173.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6BE743D41 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:55:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp) Received: (qmail 6747 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2004 15:55:09 +0900 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (210.139.52.70) by wasley.bl.mmtr.or.jp with SMTP; 23 Dec 2004 15:55:09 +0900 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:54:05 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20041223.155405.116369681.rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> To: linimon@lonesome.com From: Hideyuki KURASHINA In-Reply-To: References: X-URL: http://www.rushani.jp/ X-PGP-Public-Key: http://www.rushani.jp/rushani.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A052 6F98 6146 6FE3 91E2 DA6B F2FA 2088 439A DC57 X-RC5-72-Stats: http://stats.distributed.net/participant/psummary.php?project_id=8&id=432320 X-Mailer: Mew version 4.1.52 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: portmgr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFD: changes to the Porter's Handbook about proposing new categories X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:55:12 -0000 Hi, Mark, >>> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:29:39 -0600 (CST), Mark Linimon 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. > + > + > + > + Proposing a new category > + > + As the Ports Collection has grown over time, various new > + categories have been introduced. New categories can either > + be virtual categories—those that do > + not have a corresponding subdirectory in the ports tree— > + or physical categories—those that > + do. The following text dicusses the issues involved in creating discusses > + > + > + Makefiles for the > + new ports once they are repocopied [...] > + > + 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;. > + -- rushani