-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/2010 17:55:38, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 17:19:02 +0100 > Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
>> To submit an update, generate a diff against the previous version of >> the port using 'diff -Nur'. Attach this to a PR 'send-pr -a >> port.diff' > > I prefer http://ionut.tetcu.info/FreeBSD/How-to-submit-a-diff.txt Indeed -- that's a much better written set of instructions than my rather off-the-cuff e-mail. >> - -- fill in the fields in the PR as sensibly as possible: the >> Severity and Priority fields have become rather debased so just set >> them to 'serious' and 'medium' respectively. > > NO, please. Just because some people don't think, there's no need for > us to imitate them :) > > There's nothing urgent or serious about this PR. The 'Severity' field is clearly aimed at bug reports, and doesn't really make sense for change requests like this. I tend to use 'Serious' because while it's clearly not critical, 'non-critical' seems too trivial. I think it's really a flaw in Gnats that those fields can be set by the person submitting the bug report. I think they should be only be settable by whoever analyzes the report or works on resolving it[*]. >> Category is 'ports'. >> If you were the maintainer of the port, Class would be 'maintainer >> update'; as you aren't the Class should be 'change request' (which is >> correct in this case, even if one of the changes is to make yourself >> maintainer). > > Change request. Or did I miss where the OP said that the current > maintainer gave him the maintainership? Yes -- it's a Change request. That's actually what I said, although in retrospect I could have expressed it more clearly. Rule of thumb is it's always a change request unless your e-mail address as Maintainer in the Makefile has been committed to CVS I don't think anything I said is terribly at variance with your document and I think I prefer what you say there anyhow. Is it likely to be added to the Porter's Handbook or appear on the FreeBSD website as a stand-alone article? Cheers, Matthew [*] Did anyone have any good suggestions for a replacement for Gnats yet? I know there is a desire to replace it with something better. - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvpm/AACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxLNwCfc5Z39nNc7ULYGOPSbLL4qEoi 3qYAn36BcpwAM/Y00Zmdkaor6Tmbw+bu =a8Vw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
