What about items packages that have been setting in the tracker for many months?
On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > We got the trackers as part of the sf.net project space, so they > didn't require much effort to set up. Unfortunately, as you all know, > they're also nontrivial to use; the package submissions tracker is > notably annoying. > > While we're figuring out an alternative, I would like to propose a > few ideas. > > 1) If you're submitting a new revision to an existing package, send a > message to fink-devel as well mentioning that fact and including a > link to the tracker item. That way someone with commit access can run > a quick diff on the files against the revision that is in Fink, and if > the change is sufficiently trivial can add it without further ado. > > 2) For a new version of a package (or a new variant), follow the same > procedure as above. If, once again, the changes are trivial, it can > get expedited. If the changes are more substantial, some testing may > be in order. > > Note: if a package is actually maintained by a person you may be > better off contacting them directly rather than going through the > tracker. > > 3) For new packages, it's probably still a good idea to solicit > feedback on fink-devel as well. If you describe what the package > does, somebody here might have an interest in trying it out. > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Fink Documenter (still) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
