On 12 Mar 2018, at 21:35, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > On Mar 12, 2018, at 13:56, db wrote: >> If not, shouldn't it, prior to accepting an updated port definition? > The buildbot is only engaged after a commit is in the repository master > branch. > We have a separate system, using Travis CI, for doing test builds of updates > that have been submitted as pull requests but have not yet been merged into > the repository master branch. But most maintainers that are committers don't > submit pull requests for their own software, they just commit directly to > master, so their changes would not go through Travis.
Then why contribute an update to a port circumventing the test build system? What's the sense in that?