From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 28 23:09:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD541065673; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:09:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF0014DDB6; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EFBA18C.5060705@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:09:00 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ulrich_Sp=F6rlein?= , Mark Linimon , Xin LI , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@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> <20111228230336.GI83814@acme.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <20111228230336.GI83814@acme.spoerlein.net> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: svn commit: r228896 - head/contrib/netcat X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:09:01 -0000 On 12/28/2011 15:03, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > 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. Well I still think a comment in the code, next to the foreign repo Id would be the easiest way. In svn-world we tend to keep FREEBSD-Upgrade files in $REPO/vendor/foo/dist/ rather than in src/contrib, otherwise that might be a useful alternative. Doug -- You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/