On 25 Jan 2014, at 00:47, John Marino <freebsd.cont...@marino.st> wrote: > >> On 1/25/2014 01:36, Big Lebowski wrote: >> I was hoping to get some discussion revealing how the work is organized >> around ports PR, perhaps some ideas on improving them and I hoped that >> people who can make decisions and changes would notice it and consider >> them, since as they say, the squeeky wheel gets the grease, that's all. At >> no point I insisted on forcing anyone to anything, and I dont think that's >> neither only nor a viable solution. >> >> It seems obvious that current process doesnt work very well, then I'd aim >> at reorganizing that process - it appears that there is no roles specified, >> so the responsibility is blurred, and when everyone is responsible for one >> thing, in practice no one is. Perhaps role assignment could be of any help? > > I'm not trying to be a jerk, but surely I'm coming off that way. > Again, nobody is obligated to accept any assignment. They have to > volunteer to do it. The only person that The Big Lebowski can influence > here is himself. > > Thus, are you volunteering for this role?
That's a role I would happily volunteer to do. > It's not my call, but if you > really want to do clean out and triage the all PRs on an ongoing basis, > my guess is that would be very welcome and we'd figure out a way to set > that up. It would definitely help, especially for those maintainer that > "approve" patches but the PRs never get opened (or set to a better state > than "open"). Perhaps triage of all new (and existing PRs until caught up) is the way to go. > At some point we'll have a new PR system, that fact might be having an > impact on current PRs -- Regards, Gary J. Hayers _______________________________________________ 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"
