From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 16:42:20 2003 Return-Path: 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 38CEC16A4CF for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:42:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from carrick.bishnet.net (carrick.bishnet.net [217.204.9.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A96D43FA3 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:42:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tdb@carrick.bishnet.net) Received: from tdb by carrick.bishnet.net with local (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 5.1) id 1ALXT5-00075z-3t; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:42:15 +0000 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:42:15 +0000 From: Tim Bishop To: Oliver Eikemeier Message-ID: <20031117004215.GB5555@carrick.bishnet.net> References: <20031019233208.80051.qmail@mail.frobs.net> <20031116191222.GA30181@mail.webmonster.de> <20031116214023.GA16310@xor.obsecurity.org> <3FB80FB3.5090205@ciam.ru> <20031117001330.GA18934@xor.obsecurity.org> <3FB8182F.50000@fillmore-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FB8182F.50000@fillmore-labs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-PGP-Key: 0x5AE7D984 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1453 086E 9376 1A50 ECF6 AE05 7DCE D659 5AE7 D984 Sender: "T.D.Bishop" X-Bishnet-MailScanner-Information: Contact postmaster@bishnet.net X-Bishnet-MailScanner-VirusCheck: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: ports/58260: New Port: print/lilypond-devel X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 00:42:20 -0000 On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:37:03AM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >It's great to see enthusiasm for the new "portrookies" project, but at > >the moment most committers are not using it, so unless the new version > >of your port is available in gnats most committers will not find it. > > You have to start somewhere. Tell us how we can improve portrookies so > that it will be easier for committers to get the ports. > > One idea that popped up was downloadable shar files/diffs and to post > just the url to gnats, but hey, the project is one and a half day old... What about the differences between a port that's a rookie, and a real port. For example, they have a different (or extra) category, and a PKGNAMEPREFIX. So even if a committer did want to pull it straight out of the portrookie CVS repository, they'd have to munge it before merging it in to the freebsd ports tree. Tim. -- Tim Bishop http://www.bishnet.net/tim PGP Key: 0x5AE7D984