> On Oct 7, 2016, at 7:54 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > > >> On Oct 6, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Rainer Müller <rai...@macports.org> wrote: >> >> On 2016-10-06 10:22, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >>> On Oct 6, 2016, at 02:33, Sterling Smith <smit...@fusion.gat.com> >>> wrote: >>>> When is the macports repo on GitHub supposed to appear? >>> >>> I have no ETA for you yet. "When it's ready." Part of being ready >>> includes having documentation about how we'll perform the tasks we >>> need to perform on GitHub, so people who know how to do that should >>> definitely contribute to the documentation, and people should ask >>> questions about things that aren't explained in the documentation. >> >> While I agree we need some basic rules, I do not think we need to make >> the instructions too complex. Nobody is going to read them anymore when >> they get too long. >> >> We should have an idea how we want to work, but we cannot anticipate >> everything. MacPorts has always formed its policies and workflows by >> learning how maintainers do their work. I think we should continue the >> process that way. >> >> There will always be problems with the transition to GitHub that can be >> discussed on the mailing list to find a common solution. Then it can be >> documented to point people to that if they have the same problem. > > Yes. But I want to at least know how to perform the tasks that I currently > perform with Trac and Subversion once we move to GitHub. I currently do not > feel that I understand how to do that, and worry that I and other > contributors who do not know Git very well will no longer be able to > contribute effectively once we switch.
That’s my concern as well. I consider myself a gitwit and I want simple instructions to commit changes to a Portfile made by myself and given a user/maintainer submitted patch. I do sometimes modify a submitted patch, but I can live with committing it exactly and then committing my changes afterwards. I don’t need to know the proper git way to do that right now. I’m assuming I will get more familiar with it as time goes on. Cheers! Frank _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
