Since we're already in the mood to discuss FreeBSD ports issues, maybe
somebody can clear something up for me.
Several days ago, I submitted a patch for a port I maintain:
ports/156541 "[MAINTAINER] Upgrade lang/gnat-aux to release version
and add C++"
Nobody has touched it, but many other PRs after that submission have
been assigned, etc. So I have two questions:
1) What's involved with processing a patch from a maintainer? Is it
simply a committer commits it on behalf of the maintainer (iow very
easy?). Or is it the other end of the spectrum where it has to go
through Tinderbox? I would assume the maintainer is trusted and the
patch is applied without testing.
2) I have very well aware that people dedicate their own time, etc, and
I think that explains why the PRs are getting cherry picked. But
seriously, shouldn't there be a policy to process these PRs in order?
I'm sure it's been like this for years, but it doesn't seem like the
best approach to me. Or at least the fairest. Maybe if an interesting
PR is submitted it will give extra incentive to process the waiting PRs
to get to it.
-- John
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