From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Feb 1 10: 8:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from webcom.it (brian.inet.it [213.92.4.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 247E837B4EC for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:08:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 73536 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Feb 2001 18:02:23 -0000 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:02:22 +0100 From: Andrea Campi To: Jean-Marc Zucconi Cc: will@physics.purdue.edu, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: -CURRENT and XFree86 4.0.2 problem Message-ID: <20010201190221.B8965@webcom.it> References: <20010123101200.B542@naver.co.id> <20010131115547.C2268@webcom.it> <200101311336.f0VDaTk81098@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010131152541.F2268@webcom.it> <20010201050902.L479@puck.firepipe.net> <20010201133551.A1256@webcom.it> <200102011744.f11Hibe95917@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102011744.f11Hibe95917@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jmz@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:44:37AM -0800 X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Go to XFree86.org and become a developper. > > Do not confuse 'maintaining a port' and 'maintaining a software'. Look, I can understand your point, but what you fail to see is that your point doesn't get FreeBSD users, rather, it's bound to turn them away. Ports are not part of the system, I agree. Nonetheless, people do use them, and should be able to rely on them. What I talking about is something like, "hey, I have the new port for 4.0.x ready, it's up at this URL, how about trying it out? I will commit in 2 days". Simple, easy on everybody time, but effective, and it would avoid accidents like this. Your argument is the same as saying, -current is -current, so it can break at any time. True, but we still want to give it a reasonable amount of testing, no? Anyway, this has been stressed to death. Sadly, my opinion is that a few maintainers/porters agree with me, and a few other take any suggestion, constructive or not, as an attack to the -ports community at large. So I'll shut up... Bye, Andrea -- ...and that is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message