Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:13:59 +0100 From: "Gary Hayers" <Gary@hayers.org> To: "'FreeBSD-Ports'" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: New port? Message-ID: <200404091614.i39GE0rb023764@box.hayers.net> In-Reply-To: <20040409160234.GB31230@laptop.lambertfam.org>
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Scott Lambert wrote: > 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. Thanks Scott, That's just what I needed to know. Regards, Gary Hayers System Operator (but not operating a system!) http://www.hayers.org/
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