In years gone by, and I am thinking of FreeBSD 7.0 specifically, portmgr@ gave some latitude to *ALL* committers to "just fix things" to get a port into shape. In the case of 7.0, it was making ports build for gcc4.
What we have laying ahead of us is a ports tree in various states of modern preparedness (new style USES=, stagefication, etc) and the old way of doing ports (boo!). We would like committers, and contributors to generate a PR and/or "just fix" the old ports to update them to the new way of doing things regardless of maintainership. We are looking for fixes in the following areas - Convert to LIB_DEPENDS - stagify ports - convert things like USE_GMAKE -> USES=gmake USE_DOS2unix -> USES=dos2unix etc. This can be done with implicit portmgr@ blanket approval, and without maintainer approval. Please, however, respect some boundaries, do not change ports belonging to kde@, gnome@ or x11@. These teams work in private repos that may have changes pending. Also, cross reference GNATS, to see if a port has an open PR that you can factor into the fix. It is important to stress here that we *DO NOT* want to invalidate existing patches that a maintainer has offered up or already approved. If the change is very trivial AND has been tested, "just fix it". One of the strengths of the Ports Collection is it's volunteer maintainers, if you make a change, regardless of how trivial, just send a courtesy email to the maintainer. http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2014/01/07/blanket-approval-to-modernize-the-ports-tree/ _______________________________________________ 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"
