From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed May 18 12:32:34 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BD2B3FE97 for ; Wed, 18 May 2016 12:32:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nolden@kde.org) Received: from mailout04.t-online.de (mailout04.t-online.de [194.25.134.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mailout00.t-online.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18C771ADB for ; Wed, 18 May 2016 12:32:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nolden@kde.org) Received: from fwd35.aul.t-online.de (fwd35.aul.t-online.de [172.20.27.145]) by mailout04.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id C53DE41B1F65 for ; Wed, 18 May 2016 14:32:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from w530.nolden.freebsd (V+iKoZZCYhO50nCw23Rb04ZSceTEAJCHiyG3GQDaycT0Ey0PDqNGFgM4z20OEinwE3@[94.219.120.114]) by fwd35.t-online.de with (TLSv1:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) esmtp id 1b30eF-0ObsO00; Wed, 18 May 2016 14:32:23 +0200 From: Ralf Nolden To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: nolden@kde.org Subject: KDE-FreeBSD: commiters and mentors needed Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 14:32:22 +0200 Message-ID: <5809165.rFVrmXcuGa@w530.nolden.freebsd> Organization: KDE User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (FreeBSD/10.3-RELEASE; KDE/4.14.3; amd64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ID: V+iKoZZCYhO50nCw23Rb04ZSceTEAJCHiyG3GQDaycT0Ey0PDqNGFgM4z20OEinwE3 X-TOI-MSGID: 0017f04f-1dff-4fd3-828a-75d690eec1e0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 12:32:34 -0000 Hi all, the KDE/FreeBSD (kde@FreeBSD.org) has some commiters that currently check in our work to the ports tree (see https://freebsd.kde.org/people.php), which to my knowledge are mainly makc and rakuco along with Alonso Schaich. All three do a really good work in carefully checking which parts to submit from our ports tree, however, the amount of ports that we maintain, prepare and test are a really large pile. Personal restraints in time available for commits and prior testing limit our productivity down to a point where a lot of port versions are done only for area51 tree and never make it to the main ports tree. Added to those circumstances are the increased speed of releases of KDE and Qt, which almost require weekly attention from our side, so we would really like to get our "done" pile loaded off to the main ports tree. To help with the situation, it would be really greatly appreciated if some commiters would actually a) help us commit and b) mentor some of us who are already doing the porting work in the area51 ports tree so we can merge more and sooner than is currently happening due to time constraints of the people who took up this task until now. As said, this is not a complaint about the people who did the commits up to now, but a realization that the time of the people who have commit access does not last to keep up with the speed of development, so we need some solution that would help us get things moving. For commiters willing to help and those who would be willing to mentor us, please contact us at #kde-freebsd and/or on kde@FreeBSD.org. Thank you for your attention. -- Kind regards, Ralf Nolden