Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:54:03 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/elk/files patch-af Message-ID: <20021021215403.GP91539@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20021021204624.GA41309@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <200210211954.g9LJsfJL028323@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021021200304.GA55433@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021021203514.GA96125@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200210212040.g9LKenlq068013@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20021021204624.GA41309@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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* Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> [021021 13:46] wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 04:40:49PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:35:14 -0700, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> said: > > > > > Sigh. I can see that submitting PRs to fix the > > > ports collections has been a waste of my time. > > > > > PR ports/44285 > > > > Well, it rather depends on who's doing the work. I am occasionally > > motivated to do a search for `long-hanging fruit' in the bento logs, > > but I rarely ever look at the PR database (that's more effort than I > > normally care to put it). > > > > I looked at the bento logs and chose broken ports > assigned to ports@freebsd.org. I fixed 10 ports > this weekend. So far, graphics/mpeg_encode > and now lang/elk have been fixed today by committers > who didn't check the PR database. There was a > commit to print/gv today to fix a (different) problem, > yet the committer did not check to see that I actually > fixed/worked-around the install problem. If anyone was truly motivated they might code up something that does a double confirm when committing to a port that has an outstanding PR, or how about warning if checking out a port module that has an open PR? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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