From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jun 27 11:06:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04883 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA04868 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id VAA10045; Fri, 27 Jun 1997 21:05:01 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 21:05:01 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: James FitzGibbon cc: freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3969: New port - p5-gd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, James FitzGibbon wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Narvi wrote: > > > The morale - if you have an idea of making a port, do it right away *and* > > submit it. > > Or, perhaps we should do something similar to what CPAN does. A module > can be in one of several states: idea, development, alpha, beta, or > release. > > When someone gets an idea to do a module, they can put it into the CPAN > registry even if it doesn't exist - it just has a state of 'i'. > > Something for the great ports Genesis, if that even happens... I have once already suggested this - a separate/list/page where people can say - working on this/that. The "locks", of course, should be time-outable. If you haven't submitted a port in xxx amount of time, the lock exppires. Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. > > -- > j. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | James FitzGibbon james@nexis.net | > | The Nexis Group Voice/Fax : 416 410-0100 | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >