On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:52:03AM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Tue 04 Aug 2009 at 09:21:07 PDT Diego Depaoli wrote: > >2009/8/4 Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org>: > >> Diego Depaoli wrote: > >>> There are too many ports and too few people who care them. > >>> IMHO the options are: > >>> - decrease the number of ports > >> We trim dead/useless ports all the time. > >>> - increase the number of ?volunteers/committers/testers... > >> This is the only valid answer for FreeBSD. > >How? I think your following comment (even smiled) isn't the right > >starting point. > > > >>> - switch to a multi-level solution (e.g. Archlinux). > >> In DiegoBSD you should feel free to use any solution you think is > >> useful. :) > >Please look at > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/134443 > >Ok, I agree, is an useless port, but 3 months without further notices > >are enough to demotivate any volunteer.
I've gone ahead and grabbed this PR. I will get to it when time permits (I've currently got a lot on my plate so please be patient). > I've been a maintainer since the beginning of this year, and I've yet to > have any of my updates go unnoticed for that long. I suspect that your > PR is the exception rather than the rule. I don't know if it's true or not but I certainly agree with you here. > But it does suggest the need for more guidance on how maintainers can > work effectively with the committers. What can we do to help streamline > the process? What sort of things create extra, unnecessary work for > committers? Submitting PRs in the proper format and that need no extra work is the best. Unfortunately knowing when an update is done is not something that one intuitively knows; it comes with practice. Paying attention to what you submitted compared to what got committed is a good way to find out if you made any mistakes. Talking to the committers (we don't bite, I promise) also helps. The IRC channels are documented on the wiki and are a great source of getting help with things. Another great resource on how to submit good PRs is the porter's handbook[1]. It covers a lot of things in detail that can help your PR handled get handled quickly and easily. > If a PR doesn't get picked up within a week, it doesn't seem to be > showing up on the committers' scans when they're looking for something > to do. Perhaps they should fix their scans, but perhaps the maintainer > should post a message here, asking for someone to look at the PR? I've > seen messages like that in the past, and the response has always been > that one of the committers volunteers to take care of it. Yes, if a PR goes unclaimed for some period of time please feel free to ask here for someone to take a look at it. -- WXS [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/ _______________________________________________ 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"
