On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Sahil Tandon said: > I would like to submit a new port which "RUN_DEPENDS" another port; > the latter did not exist in the tree, so I submitted it > (ports/123382) on May 4. I fully appreciate the committers' various > responsibilities and time constraints, so this is not a 'hey, > what's taking you so long' query. Since this was my first > submission, I am just trying to get a sense of proper etiquette. > Is it bad form to email the committer who took responsibility of > the PR asking whether I've made a glaring mistake which would be > fixable via a follow-up? Or should I simply wait for a "feedback" > request if that were the case? > > Thanks.
Since I'm the committer in question, I'll go ahead and answer. First of all you just submitted this port two days ago and I haven't had time to look at it yet. While it's always ok to email the committer responsible with questions or concerns, the general rule is to give them time to work on it. Most committers are fairly prompt in their handling of pr's, but since we are all volunteers sometimes real life issues supersede. I think giving the committer a couple of weeks before following up is probably a good idea. Also, in general, new ports don't carry the same priority as fixes or updates, but that doesn't maen they should languish indefinately either. As for "glaring mistakes" if I find a serious problem with a port I will always email the submitter with either a fix or asking for further input. While there is no set policy on this, most committers will let you know if something isn't right or the port doesn't build. So please be patient and I will get to it as soon as I can. Hope that answers your question :-) Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
