Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:09:12 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Clewlow <tim1timau@yahoo.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>, Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Cc: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Subject: Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working! Message-ID: <841253.79970.qm@web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <op.t429yrnb9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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--- Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:21:47 -0600, Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 20:24 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> >
> >> Please, prove that you are right. Or do you want to receive a hammer
> >> without doing it?
> >>
> > And why not? Give him the approval to do the patches, review them and if
> > he is right in his approach and they work as they should, commit them?
> <snip>
>
> How can we approve to something nothing? Do you realized that anyone
> doesn't need anyone's approve to create the patches? Chuck hasn't provide
> any patch, edvince nor detail. His words:
>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:08:50 -0500
> From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
> ==============================================
> The only way I'm going to get things to be for certain, it's to start over
> from the beginning, and this time follow the procedures that any serious
> porter (such as you) already knows by heart. I'm not going to try to
> repeat all that here.
> ==============================================
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
> > m.
>
How about a compromise. Find a relatively simple linux port that breaks heir
style/policy. Fix it, send in a patch giving the reason that it used to break
heir style/policy and now with the patch it doesnt. Then you will be in a
better position to present your reasoning to a port manager if the maintainer
complains. And, assuming the port manager will approve of a port being made
heir compliant, you will then have a precedent to back you up, and may be more
able to convince a port manager to give you approval/backing to do the whole
lot.
Cheers, Tim.
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