On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:24:07 -0300, Jesse Smith wrote:
> You mentioned the tinderbox. Is that a clean build environment in a
> jail/chroot? I use something like that to build PBI modules on PC-BSD,
> but I haven't tried using such as tool for Ports.
http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com/
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Sahil Ta
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From: freebsd-ports-requ...@freebsd.org
Reply-to: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: freebsd-ports Digest, Vol 373, Issue 1
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:00:25 + (UTC)
> On a related note, what about trying to actively attract upstream
> mai
Jesse Smith wrote on 2010-07-11:
I'm not saying I have a solution. Just that I'd like to help out as much
as the veteran maintainers are willing.
There's also the burden of testing PRs, we "veteran committers" (I still
have two mentors myself) need to make sure the port builds and installs
Original Message-
From: Mark Linimon
To: Jesse Smith
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,
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
I'm a bit new to FreeBSD Ports, but I agree that there is quite a backlog.
Everyone seems to be working hard and yet the work keeps piling up.
Though I don't have much experience, I would like to learn (and help). At the
moment I'm the upstream maintainer for four projects (two of which are
est
