From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 19 2:43:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDD937BDB2; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:43:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6A9621C65; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 05:43:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 05:43:42 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Maxim Sobolev Cc: Alexander Langer , ports@FreeBSD.org, asami@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patches rules (Was: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/qpopper Makefile ports/mail/qpopper/patchespatch-manpages ports/mail/qpopper/pkg MESSAGE PLISTports/mail/qpopper/scripts pre-install) Message-ID: <20000719054342.S51462@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <200007190731.AAA03974@freefall.freebsd.org> <39756134.DC76C6B7@FreeBSD.org> <20000719100926.A14534@cichlids.cichlids.com> <397563F6.637203D4@FreeBSD.org> <20000719103430.A16056@cichlids.cichlids.com> <3975691E.2E57CE99@FreeBSD.org> <20000719105126.A16553@cichlids.cichlids.com> <39757581.ACC6B77C@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39757581.ACC6B77C@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:31:45PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:31:45PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > We have *the rules* outlined in Handbook, if you do want to change it for > whatever reason you should write down you proposal and try to get approval from > the -ports people. Only when you have discussed it with others and got > sufficiently more positive responses than negative you can change rules and start > using new instead (and update docs to reflect it, BTW), not in the reverse order > - first start using it and only then try to get approval. What you are doing > right now is just not the Right Way [tm] to behave in the large project. The same > applies to O'Brien as well. I agree wholeheartedly. I'm not against change, but just doing something and saying "well, it should be done anyways" is not the way we do things around here. Please conform until concensus is reached. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message