From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 03:09:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F10816A419 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:09:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim1timau@yahoo.com) Received: from web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.62]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DB6713C455 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:09:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim1timau@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 80027 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Jan 2008 03:09:12 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=HnVN7TYFVMYJQhiktwIoGtla3mf5N4Cv5rVhlAD/w7XeQDr8sKIvlB6MhiFOOW8QMGoSnBxce8GO2KNUxO5BVBT+vWQ+Eh6wPpsRpRJD4SH3w+sIuR3HhFiW9LrZl7y5V4k4RjYEdVMZ317D6f1rBs9jFmsmbIAR9872vjTjwrU=; X-YMail-OSG: ycGXxfcVM1m2V4GxVxv4XhBW2reb9qa9WgONFVugiRSV4Soj.hKyH8fPAelpYZ7i_ArO1gr_8AAd.AswrzAOiHiSg8oxWFVor3mxUePBtEhfHRMkajo- Received: from [202.176.2.116] by web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:09:12 PST Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:09:12 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Clewlow To: Jeremy Messenger , Michal Varga In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <841253.79970.qm@web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Cc: Boris Samorodov , Chuck Robey , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:09:14 -0000 --- Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:21:47 -0600, Michal Varga > 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? > > > 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 > ============================================== > 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs