Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:03:36 +0100 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r228896 - head/contrib/netcat Message-ID: <20111228230336.GI83814@acme.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <4EFB9F77.7060309@FreeBSD.org> References: <201112260907.pBQ979X4098221@svn.freebsd.org> <4EF83AF4.9010108@FreeBSD.org> <20111228154049.GD83814@acme.spoerlein.net> <20111228211133.GA2731@lonesome.com> <20111228225206.GG83814@acme.spoerlein.net> <4EFB9F77.7060309@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 15:00:07 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On 12/28/2011 14:52, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > > We have > > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ContribSoftware > > > > that tries to track the state of anything upstream in src. > > I've been maintaining BIND in the base for 9 1/2 years, and never knew > about that page ... the wiki is a good tool for some things, but IMO > this kind of information needs to be in the src tree where it is easily > available, archived for the future, etc. Agreed. It would make branching that information a whole lot easier! Any good ideas on how to implement this? It could be as simple as having all that information in /CONTRIB or something, similar to UPDATING or MAINTAINERS. Uli
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