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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.'

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