----Original Message----- From: Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> To: Jesse Smith <jessefrgsm...@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PR Load Solutions Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:55:32 -0500
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 06:46:36AM -0700, Jesse Smith wrote: >I would be happy to take over maintaining those to ease the load. OK, we always welcome help :-) If you need help submitting PRs, let us know. > Veteran maintainers might not like the idea of new blood having commit > access, which is understandable, but I'd like to help out. The issue isn't about "not liking" -- it's more of a question of trust. We're asking our users to trust that the ports come from known places and have been through at least some kind of QA. To do that, we've set up a minimum threshhold to get commit access (a track record with filed PRs; some demonstrated ability to work with user questions; and so forth). It's actually not that difficult, in general, to wind up with a ports commit bit. mcl Perhaps I should have phrased that differently. I realize there needs to be a level of trust. Having come in recently to the world of Ports, it looks to me like there may be a small catch-22 involved. That is, people gain trust by submitting (and getting approved) PRs, but the existing maintainers seem to be too busy to keep up with the PRs coming in. Which means it takes a long time to earn that level of trust. I'm not saying I have a solution. Just that I'd like to help out as much as the veteran maintainers are willing. On a related note, what about trying to actively attract upstream maintainers to help out with the ports of their projects? I didn't even know until recently that two of my projects had been added to the Ports tree. Once I found out, I wanted to help keep those ports maintained and up to date. Maybe other up-stream developers could be recruited to babysit their ports? - Jesse _______________________________________________ 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"
