Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 16:42:03 +0200 From: Borodin Oleg <onborodin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about order of adding application to freebsd ports. Message-ID: <20170619164203.340b0cf2@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170609082438.GN43031@home.opsec.eu> References: <20170609092338.1dfcf932@gmail.com> <20170609072859.GK43031@home.opsec.eu> <20170609101221.3b0c60e7@gmail.com> <20170609082438.GN43031@home.opsec.eu>
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 10:24:38 +0200 Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> wrote: > Hi! > > > > > I ask for little advice. > > > > I wrote web manager X.509 certificates http://minica.unix7.org/ and created a freebsd port for it. > > > > > > > > 1. Who could check quality and security of this code? > > > > > > The committer would check the port quality etc. > > > > Next dummy question from novice, excuse me =) > > > > How to become a new committer for a new port? > > There are two roles: The maintainer (the person that decides what > changes go into a port), and the committer (the person that > has commit rights to the freebsd port repository). > > For a new port, the submitter of the new port is normally also the > maintainer. > > I found your port and patches at > > http://minica.unix7.org/ > > and will have a look, anyway (if I find the time). > > > > Submit patches via bugs.freebsd.org for the two ports, and > > > the maintainers will decide if they include them. > > > > If they do not answer for a long-long time? > > Then the PR / patch runs into a maintainer timeout (14 days) and any > committer can override the maintainer (if the patch is valid). > > > Or the committer will have a bad mood? > > There are more committers, so one committer is hopefully not the bottleneck. > If one committer is not doing the job, poke another one to ask to take over. > > > So already it was some times. > > If you have cases like that (and I'm guilty of that as well), > post the PR number here and some other committer will pick it up. > Thank you too, Kurt, I will follow your instructions as you go along. With best regards, Oleg Borodin +7-952-058-72-64 borodin@unix7.org onborodin@gmail.com
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