From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 28 15:59:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from privatecube.privatelabs.com (privatecube.privatelabs.com [198.143.31.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D936137B43F for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:58:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misha.privatelabs.com (root@misha.privatelabs.com [198.143.31.6]) by privatecube.privatelabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA10254; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:17:35 -0400 Received: from virtual-estates.net (mi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by misha.privatelabs.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8SMvZv73577; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:57:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@virtual-estates.net) Message-Id: <200009282257.e8SMvZv73577@misha.privatelabs.com> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:57:34 -0400 (EDT) From: mi@aldan.algebra.com Subject: Re: erlang port -- a poster child (Re: I'll be rolling a 4.1.1 r To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, andrew@cream.org In-Reply-To: <20000928190414.A38465@Fedaykin.here> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28 Sep, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: = I am not sure this is the right way to do these things. = However, even if these are correct some questions already arise: = = 1) We are adding 2 new classes that are category specific = (this is prone to PR filling mistakes and confusion) I think, this can be generalized to be update and maintainer-update or some such for other parts of the system -- not just ports. I'm sure there are non-committers involved with software in contrib, for example... That way handling of other PRs can be streamlined too and most of your reservations will become moot :) Now, someone just has to send-pr your patch :) Gentelmen, set your timers... -mi = 2) GNATS or the filling PR tools should have some sanity = checking: ports-update and port-maintainer should give some sort = of gnats-adm warning for mistaken filling; and, the filling = forms/tools shouldn't allow it. = 3) We need some sort of tool (perhaps other than GNATS, I = can't judge it) that implicit allows us to use specific class/categories = combinations. From my novel_this_morning_understanding of GNATS, = this is not something it does kindly. Classes are all generic. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message