From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 15:48:57 2011 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 C72A71065670 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:48:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533AE8FC16 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so2137537bwz.13 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:48:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MGIV2ugYu/TkMU4fLZCB3yW4rKjeNe3U0G4DVj6ztbc=; b=T2t4JiNqwdP69roVXA0SfTKoMG91aMeuIwpEowheG+PjT9BAJTmiiicEkxxq6P52GE k3rIk3kEnIKtrxn28pUiLRtD0JmpXF3KogcL3Q2CQA8HwiWlcMq2TKDLk0sZTNGofvHO Az/AbP4skjYXkk+anfqBpjNenVOs8vqWr5gqc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fxmDE2MpQzCL13C/8lJPQbl6+hKJIo54WiKzUxlUA+QncBWMd7Q1faslqI24ah/dxR Kf3sCNAeQRPD9SF0v9wUB0DiX6V8z0CAhckxxNdO28NrTdImQIhqQmk61cmqhOVSp5Wm 5cvEJCl9fvoyf3kF2TDgNAIuHwpsOSsmW2jsA= Received: by 10.204.181.7 with SMTP id bw7mr2124944bkb.16.1303919336107; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:48:56 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.42.21 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:48:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110427125424.GJ34314@home.opsec.eu> References: <20110427014343.GJ38579@comcast.net> <20110427060917.GB73524@comcast.net> <20110427125424.GJ34314@home.opsec.eu> From: Chris Rees Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:48:26 +0100 Message-ID: To: Kurt Jaeger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping maintainership of my ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:48:57 -0000 On 27 April 2011 13:54, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Eitan Adler wrote: >> Things like the gmake upgrade and new ports >> features take a lot of time. =A0Furthermore adding a port seems to be a >> "trivial" task, however the committers have to (a) fix it up if it is >> formatted badly (b) test it in a tinderbox and only then (c) commit >> it. > > I use three boxes (for 8.1 i386, amd64 and 9-current amd64) to > test. I do not use a tinderbox, as I assume considerable complexity > to set one up. Nah, have a look at [1]. Easy as pie. > Does using a tinderbox make a large difference ? Yes! It finds hiccups in pkg-plist (very difficult to notice manually), it tests in different versions -- just add them to the queue. If you'd really like to try it out, I'll give you an account on my machine. Let me know. Chris [1] http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com/README/