From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 07:57:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23311065678 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:57:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2508A8FC13 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:57:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl144-8.kln.forthnet.gr [195.74.243.8]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id mAC7gr7g016066 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:42:58 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mAC7gq7g053811; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:42:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mAC7gqKO053810; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:42:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Alexander Churanov" In-Reply-To: <3cb459ed0811110728w6f00a0ag7f16045e519901b6@mail.gmail.com> (Alexander Churanov's message of "Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:28:58 +0300") Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:42:29 +0200 Message-ID: <878wrpcrve.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <3cb459ed0808221700w335b0906g6901d8b8bec4dad9@mail.gmail.com> <200808241415.31812.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> <6a7033710808241239p1cbdc7adwd4f87814b428b10b@mail.gmail.com> <3cb459ed0808241958v552eafejf7841f0f9993928e@mail.gmail.com> <3cb459ed0811110616t76235e72n24f2411a324a9807@mail.gmail.com> <3cb459ed0811110629g5c7cef8ascb024a9c1a920efa@mail.gmail.com> <20081111152011.GF9030@detritus.paeps.cx> <3cb459ed0811110728w6f00a0ag7f16045e519901b6@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-MailScanner-ID: mAC7gr7g016066 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.321, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.08, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Philip Paeps Subject: Re: Unicode-based FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:57:05 -0000 --=-=-= On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:28:58 +0300, "Alexander Churanov" wrote: >> Perhaps you'd like to work on this in perforce? :-) > > Probably, but what's about status reports, documentation, etc? The > main idea is to get experienced users involved. Status reports would be nice to have too, but that means you or the people who work on the code have to write them. I think a periodic email to freebsd-current could work fine :) As for getting experienced syscons people to work on your Perforce branch, that's one of the reasons Philip asked you about it. Seeing the commits fly by, other Perforce using people will "notice" the work you are doing. This may be easier than having to poll a web page, or check a remote repository in a custom hosting site. > I mean people who do not work on syscons, but are able to apply > patches and experiment with features. Additionally I am not familiar > with perforce. However, if that is similar to CVS and svn - then it > would work for me. It is quite similar to svn, and it's the repository where we can give access to FreeBSD contributors who want an easy way to resync with the latest commits, and keep working in their own private branches. There are, of course, certain differences in the names or the usage pattern of some commands you may know from Subversion, but the main idea of splitting a "namespace" in subdirectories of sandbox-nature and working in each subdirectory as a separate branch is exactly the same. This is usually nice to get you bootstrapped with a personal branch, and with a bit of command-line help it should be easy to start going. Philip can help you with the account creation part. Once you are set up with a Perforce account, please feel free to ask about using it. The Perforce admins and other FreeBSD team members who have worked with it will be there to answer any questions you have about using it. Last, but not least, thanks for working to make FreeBSD nicer to use with UTF-8! :-) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkaiO0ACgkQ1g+UGjGGA7Zu7gCgoAU7pjQtP6XXTtOrrY7sjVBS iOAAmwdKJqnCHMrf9Jqfx9HyTu3FZIKC =/J7a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--