Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:37:11 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, marino@freebsd.org Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r363524 - in head/emulators/pearpc: . files Message-ID: <53DA0037.1060809@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <20140731065333.GA39915@FreeBSD.org> References: <201407302302.s6UN2GCn094189@svn.freebsd.org> <20140731060809.GA20983@FreeBSD.org> <53D9E30D.3030902@marino.st> <20140731065333.GA39915@FreeBSD.org>
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On 7/31/2014 08:53, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > This is actually one of my concerns over bulk version updates with simple > build testing, lacking required run-time testing (even better, for some > longer period like days). Well, sure, everyone would agree that thorough run-time testing would be ideal but it's simply unrealistic due to: 1) The time required 2) more important, the expertise required. The vast majority of the 25K ports in the tree, I've never used. I have no idea how to do basic runtime testing on them much less a thorough review (All I could give is to see if it starts up) In this case, to run-test this is even more obnoxious, you need to download an image from apple, presumably a large image. I have a 20G data limit *per month* (unlimited at night) because I have satellite-based internet. I can't afford data use like this. And --- we have have a huge backlog on the PRs. the time is better spent getting through PRs 3, 6 even 12 months old rather than burning it all on one 10-year unmaintained port. Let's use what limited volunteer time we have wisely, and let users submit new PRs if there's a run issue (which indicates the port is actually used as well). John
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