From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed May 10 21:03:02 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15422D67ED3 for ; Wed, 10 May 2017 21:03:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@opsec.eu) Received: from home.opsec.eu (home.opsec.eu [IPv6:2001:14f8:200::1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD5D3DBF for ; Wed, 10 May 2017 21:03:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@opsec.eu) Received: from pi by home.opsec.eu with local (Exim 4.87 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1d8YlD-000A16-5W; Wed, 10 May 2017 23:03:03 +0200 Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 23:03:03 +0200 From: Kurt Jaeger To: Natasha Kerensikova Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ada and GNAT maintainership proposition Message-ID: <20170510210303.GG87900@home.opsec.eu> References: <20170510114351.GA61453@nat.rebma.instinctive.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170510114351.GA61453@nat.rebma.instinctive.eu> X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 21:03:02 -0000 Hi! > I'm afraid there isn't anybody, and that's why I'm asking here whether I > can be that somebody. If you submit PRs for upgrades of ada/gnat related ports, and poke committers to 'test-build and commit them', then yes, please maintain those ports. Committers mostly do build-tests, and if you add run-test targets to ports, that would be helpful, too. > The problem is that Marino's shoes are difficult to fill. I'm basically > applying for a position while I have no experience (I only compiled gcc > three times in my life), no relevant skill (except reading C), and > almost no time. The only thing preventing me from being the most > ill-suited person for the role is that I care. Is it enough? Yes. > I'm used to imposter's syndrome, but taking for example the recent thread > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2017-April/108130.html > that's already way beyond my league. Ask questions, and maybe someone will help out. That's how I do it, it works most of the time 8-} > On top of that, I'm only running recent -RELEASE, I'm not sure I can > find a box on which to run -CURRENT, and I don't hope having some > -STABLE or older -RELEASE available. That limits quite a bit my testing > capabilities. If you send me PR numbers with patches, I can testbuild them on those systems: 103 10.3-RELEASE amd64 10i 10.3-RELEASE-p17 i386 11a 11.0-RELEASE-p1 amd64 11i 11.0-RELEASE-p1 i386 cur 12.0-CURRENT r315086 amd64 And with more CPU and braintime, I might get this back in shape: arm6 12.0-CURRENT r306902 arm.armv6 p64 12.0-CURRENT r306902 powerpc.powerpc64 > So at this point, is there anybody to talk me out of trying to maintain > gcc-aux and some of the Ada ports left behind? > > What is the procedure to ask for maintainership on these? Submit a patch for the ports where you claim maintainer by setting MAINTAINER= . -- pi@opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 3 years to go !