From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 4 9:32:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37D337B401; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:32:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.gotbrains.org (www2.gotbrains.org [206.180.149.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527BD43F3F; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:32:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cravey@gotbrains.org) Received: from www.gotbrains.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.gotbrains.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h14HWaZk041419; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:32:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cravey@gotbrains.org) Received: from localhost (cravey@localhost) by www.gotbrains.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h14HWawh041416; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:32:36 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: www.gotbrains.org: cravey owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:32:36 -0600 (CST) From: Stephen Cravey To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Getting patches applied? Message-ID: <20030204110301.W38138@www.gotbrains.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A few general questions. How does a committer choose which port PRs to tackle? How does a committer choose which patches to apply? How can I encourage a committer to apply my patch or even LOOK at my PR? How does one get a PR removed once the bug is either gone or clearly not going to be fixed? Especially on an old bug. And are cosmetic patches to -RELEASEs and -STABLE pretty much wasted at this point? Like documentation to LINT and man page corrections and things? Specifically, I've sent a PR with patch (I forgot the [PATCH], sorry first one) And I'd like it applied. Though it seems that there are quite a number of PRs and mine looks like it will be lost in the flood. I've also got a number of cosmetic patches saved up, but I'm not sure whether to send them as patches to -RELEASE 4 or 5 or -STABLE or -CURRENT or all of the above. Sugestions please? Thanks. -Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message