Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:26:15 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@serebryakov.spb.ru> Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Could somebody expalin commit process? Message-ID: <3BD41067.C16E90F8@FreeBSD.org> References: <65523144401.20011022031051@serebryakov.spb.ru> <01102119475401.15112@i8k.babbleon.org> <69561118826.20011022134345@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > 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? Usually yes. > Could I become maintainer of port, if current maintainer doesn't > answer on e-mails? Yes, but it depends on how hard you have tried to contact him/her. Please provide more datails (how many messages you sent and how long you have wait for an answer), as well as name of the port(s) in question, and then you will get a more definite answer. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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