From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 09:02:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF1816A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [216.223.208.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25BF43D1D for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 09:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C846134D56 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:02:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.lambertfam.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32352-02 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:02:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (cdm-66-233-140-221.rsvl.cox-internet.com [66.233.140.221]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B3A34D52 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:02:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AE9A7C0E6; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:02:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 12:02:34 -0400 From: Scott Lambert To: 'FreeBSD-Ports' Message-ID: <20040409160234.GB31230@laptop.lambertfam.org> References: <20040409150357.GA977@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200404091506.i39F5x8f014389@box.hayers.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404091506.i39F5x8f014389@box.hayers.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at lambertfam.org Subject: Re: New port? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: 'FreeBSD-Ports' List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 16:02:49 -0000 On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 04:05:59PM +0100, Gary Hayers wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:53:29PM +0100, Gary Hayers wrote: > > > >> I have written my first port and submitted the pr, can anyone please > >> tell me how long it takes to get it placed into the cvs repository? > > > > A few days is usual -- depends when there's a comitter available with > > time to work on it. > > I'll wait a few more days then. I've had them committed the same day or two months later. The keyword of "depends" is very true and, for me, expected in an all volunteer project, especially one of this magnatude. I usually try to be patient and give the volunteers a month to notice my PR and deal with it before sending a friendly "hey, I've got this PR, ports/##### that does (something or other). Could some interested committer take a look at it when they get a chance?" type message to this list. Sometimes it takes a couple of those. Sometimes the "interested committer" doesn't like something about my PR and asks me to change something. Sometimes I just get a gnats followup message saying "committed. thanks!" The process works, but you can't always just submit the PR and forget about it. It makes my day every time one of my PRs is accepted. Someday, I hope to get prolific enough that someone will try to punish me with a commit bit. I'm probably a long time away from that. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html