From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Oct 22 2:45:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from hungry.spb.cityline.ru (hungry.spb.cityline.ru [212.46.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7CA37B406 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:45:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lev.sereb.net (ip-2365.dialup.cl.spb.ru [212.46.204.127]) by hungry.spb.cityline.ru (8.11.2/8.8/CL) with ESMTP id f9M9gfY28427 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:42:42 +0400 (MSD) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:43:45 +0300 From: Lev Serebryakov X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: Lev Serebryakov Organization: Home X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <69561118826.20011022134345@serebryakov.spb.ru> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Subject: Re[2]: Could somebody expalin commit process? In-Reply-To: <01102119475401.15112@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <65523144401.20011022031051@serebryakov.spb.ru> <01102119475401.15112@i8k.babbleon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 /-----------------------------------------------\ | FIDONet: 2:5030/661.0 | | E-Mail: lev@serebryakov.spb.ru | | Page: http://lev.serebryakov.spb.ru/ | | ICQ UIN: 3670018 | | Phone: You know, if you have world nodelist | \===============================================/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message