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Date:      Sun, 19 Jul 2015 17:44:49 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
Cc:        Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>, "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Self committing... allowed or not?
Message-ID:  <20150719154449.GD50618@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <55ABBFEC.60302@sorbs.net>
References:  <55AB91ED.3080908@sorbs.net> <9917125A-6342-4F62-B374-E4F456EDC015@FreeBSD.org> <55ABBFEC.60302@sorbs.net>

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On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 05:19:08PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
> Dimitry Andric wrote:
> > On 19 Jul 2015, at 14:02, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net> wrote:
> >  =20
> >> please correct me if I'm wrong but isn't self committing (those with t=
he
> >> commit bit committing their own patches without QA/review/adding
> >> patchfiles to the PR) against the rules?... or is it just a free-for-a=
ll
> >> now?
> >>    =20
> >
> > If they are the maintainer, it is OK by definition.  Otherwise, approval
> > from either the maintainer or portmgr@ is needed.
> >
> > However, a number of people are on vacation, and they have notified
> > other developers that is OK to fix their ports while they are away.
> > Within reason, of course. :-)
> >
> > In any case, which specific ports are you worried about?
> >
> > -Dimitry
> >
> >  =20
> Here's the case and the three referenced commits:
>=20
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D199265
>=20
> And I know the top-level dependency will now break other things because
> of a minor detail that the committer did not take into account... That
> said I don't know if any other dependencies on it exist (so therefore it
> might not break anything else - however I am fairly sure it wasn't
> checked by the committer because of the speed and absoluteness of the
> change) because I don't need it/use it myself... but that is not the
> point.  I was 'just lucky' to come across this change process as I was
> not looking for anything, just happened to be in the right place at the
> right time to see it, and considering the hoops use plebs (those without
> the commit bit) have to jump through I thought it was rather ironic that
> 3 separate ports were changed, no testing was recorded in the PR as we
> the plebs are required to do, no patches uploaded as we the plebs have
> to do and no review as we the plebs have to have...=20
>=20
do you appear to know the said ports were broken (segfault) at startup beca=
use
of various libssl mixup, they have been tested and fixed. if another issue
appears on those ports I will fix them.

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