From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 23 11:40:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8434111F9 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:40:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA235688718; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:38:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:38:38 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola Reply-To: Bill Fumerola To: Gianmarco Giovannelli Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Current unassigned ports problem reports In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990222201448.009a2340@194.184.65.4> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > We have too many open pr :-) > > Especially the ports will become "old" before they are committing ... Is > there something that can accelerate the commit procedure ? > What an normal user can do to help in this process ? > i.e. a deep testing , an install test and so on.. ? I agree that this is a real problem. The trouble, though, is that committers have to build and check PLISTs and the sanity and basically spend as much time on the port as the submitter. Different committers have different styles (I'm anal), but the only sure way to check ports is to test/try them yourself, and that takes time. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message