From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 17 05:39:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org 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 440ED16A58C for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from novel@smtp.hispeed.ch) Received: from smtp.hispeed.ch (mxout.hispeed.ch [62.2.95.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7266C43D46 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:39:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from novel@smtp.hispeed.ch) Received: from coredump.fannet.ru (R1-Vl6-82-116-56-21.fannet.ru [82.116.56.21]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.hispeed.ch (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.6/taifun-1.0) with ESMTP id k7H5dO2M014064; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:39:24 +0200 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:39:55 +0400 From: Roman Bogorodskiy To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20060817053955.GD62148@underworld.novel.ru> Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , ports@freebsd.org References: <20060816123335.GA42090@underworld.novel.ru> <20060816172835.GA29719@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VywGB/WGlW4DM4P8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060816172835.GA29719@xor.obsecurity.org> X-PGP: http://people.freebsd.org/~novel/novel.key.asc X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on smtp-06.tornado.cablecom.ch X-Virus-Status: Clean X-DCC-spamcheck-01.tornado.cablecom.ch-Metrics: smtp-06.tornado.cablecom.ch 1377; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports tree tagging again 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: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:39:28 -0000 --VywGB/WGlW4DM4P8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:33:35PM +0400, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote: >=20 > > II Solutions > >=20 > > Yeah, I'm going to talk about ports tree tagging again :-). So what I > > propose: having HEAD and STABLE (or whatever you want't to call it,=20 > > so e.g. not to confuse with src/) branches. Committers commit all=20 > > patches to HEAD first. Then they wait for two things: > > - For next run on pointyhat to find out if package builds well > > (for a start, we could wait only for 6.x/i386 builds) > > - User feedback. Like, if there's no complains like "ahh, it > > broke everyhting, ahaha, please backout!", so everything's ok >=20 > I'm not going to support this effort as part of the CVS ports tree > (for the usual reasons when this comes up every few months), but If this comes up every few months, then it's really needed, isn't it? > there's nothing stopping you+your collaborators from maintaining your > own stable ports tree in your own repository and providing your own > support for it. I think someone (kuriyama?) was in fact already > doing this, so getting the project started would not involve much > work. That's wrong. That requires a lot of manpower, and without help from every maintainer it would be very hard. And I personally have no enough resources to provide binary packages for all supported arches (and I'm not sure about i386 even). The efforts should be united, otherwise we have almost no chances to get it work. --VywGB/WGlW4DM4P8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBROQBK4B0WzgdqspGAQKF1wP/fcVS7JHwIYi9mbc6E/71wIYyjTknRnHf qDhxVDyAB0Wp05+xsDUYRL01UPoV3NrKnBQ0LgHDqTJhyann6zD9S8334N79KQtD HuCdec4ou3NXok+6YKjENOSCw4BL5516xvXVFfWNjGmIRwP5CuT2gJVK9xi8+d5W s1r6HMBcLOY= =OJ/s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VywGB/WGlW4DM4P8--