Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:43:45 +0300 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re[2]: Could somebody expalin commit process? Message-ID: <69561118826.20011022134345@serebryakov.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <01102119475401.15112@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <65523144401.20011022031051@serebryakov.spb.ru> <01102119475401.15112@i8k.babbleon.org>
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Hello, Brian! As I can see, your are Ok. Am I right?
Monday, October 22, 2001, 2:47:54 AM, you wrote:
>> Some my PRs about ports (like libxml2 and libxslt) was commited to
>> CVS on next day after sending, and some doesn't commited for months
>> (I've send TWO PRs for russian/apache13 port, for example --
>> versions are changed faster, than commits are occurred).
>> Could somebody explain me commit politic?
BTS> I don't think it's politics, really. I mean, I'm sure that sometimes that
BTS> comes into it, but in generally simpler than that:
BTS> Different committers commit different areas of the code. Naturally, areas
BTS> that affect all users (like libraries) will tend to have a larger number of
BTS> people prepared to commit them, whereas as more specialized code (like the
BTS> language-specific ports) will have fewer. Very few Americans or western
BTS> Europeans, for example, can read Russian, and they aren't going to feel
BTS> comfortable with committing a change that they couldn't test or perhaps even
BTS> understand.
Will patches be committed faster, if thew was sent by maintainer of
the port?
Could I become maintainer of port, if current maintainer doesn't
answer on e-mails?
Lev Serebryakov
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