From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Sep 18 14:56:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF40A37B422; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA49850; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:56:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:56:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, ports@FreeBSD.org, Ade Lovett , stable@FreeBSD.org, seb@bluetail.com, ruslan@shevchenko.kiev.ua, olgeni@uli.it Subject: Re: erlang port -- a poster child (Re: I'll be rolling a 4.1.1 rele ase on September 25th) In-Reply-To: <20000918230856.A79272@mithrandr.moria.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > I agree with the "if it's not in a PR, it doesn't exist" sentiment quite > a bit - PRs contain information specific to a certain problem, and that > allows me to look at your PR in tkgnats and discover it's being > neglected, instead of just wondering what's up, and considering setting > it to feedback to see what's up. What this really boils down to is the same as in another thread recently - committers are a scarce resource, and so the submitter needs to do what he can to make the most efficient use of the resource (if he or she wants to get his change committed in a timely fashion). We've had some good suggestions here - the best thing would be to write up something for the handbook on "How to make the best use of FreeBSD committers to get changes applied", as Jordan has already suggested. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message