On 01/25/2014 05:43, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
With the scripts it should be possible to fetch the patch of a PR, apply
and commit it to your redports repository and do additional changes until
you are okay with it. What is still missing is a script that helps
committing the changes to the FreeBSD tree but it's really not that
complicated to write that.

This sounds like a very manual process again. Today it is already manual. This only automates the patching step.

be more specific and name the problem, if you mentioned it?

The raised concerns were that automatic build testing might result in less
testing on committer side. I agree that this might happen and automatic
build testing is only one part of what committers need to do. A huge
backlog and no response for months is definitely nothing we want.

But what exactly do committers test that can't be automated? Automatic system could install the port with dependencies into the blank installation, check syntax correctness, run 'lint' on it, verify that it installs/uninstalls cleanly and doesn't leave residue, etc etc. What is beyond that? I am trying to understand, what would the general ports expert without the intimate knowledge of this particular package catch, that automated system won't be able to catch?

Yuri
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