From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 17 22:43:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4615106567B; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:43:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6A28FC20; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:43:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 0B34E56252; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:43:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:43:02 -0500 From: Mark Linimon To: John Marino Message-ID: <20120717224302.GA26742@lonesome.com> References: <50017C97.3050200@filez.com> <20120714192119.GA61563@vniz.net> <5001CB97.6070205@filez.com> <50054F6E.9040002@filez.com> <50055293.3010002@FreeBSD.org> <20120717213902.GB21825@lonesome.com> <5005E2AE.3040806@marino.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5005E2AE.3040806@marino.st> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Michael Scheidell , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: maintainer timeout for FreeBSD commiters X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:43:03 -0000 On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:09:50AM +0200, John Marino wrote: > Would it be so bad if all my submitted patches (as a recognized > quality contributor with history) just got committed as a passthrough? This has been explored on the mailing lists before, however, we don't technically have a way to do either of the following: - let people commit to "just some" ports - have any patches be autocommitted No one has ever tackled the former problem. The latter problem just seems to me to open up ways for people to abuse the system. It makes me nervous. As a counter-suggestion, with the addition of new hardware to redports, we are starting to see people referencing a correct install/deinstall log that has already been created there. But IMHO we still want to have committers going over the diffs to make sure that e.g. there are no trojans and no undocumented changes in behavior (config file locations, startup scripts, and so forth), at least to the maximum extent feasible. There's some kind of middle ground between letting too many people have commit access, and too few, and we've tried to walk it. I doubt that this explanation will answer your (legitimate) criticsm, however. mcl