As many of you are aware, I merge a significant fraction of the pull requests these days. A few requests to make it easier, these three things on their own represent a surprising fraction of the communication I need to have with contributors:
1. We have squash and merge disabled. This means that I often have to coach people through doing the squash on their own. If we enabled that, often it would not be necessary because I could do it for them. Is there a good reason we have that disabled? 2. The guide has poor documentation on what license strings are acceptable, and port lint doesn't check that the license string is an acceptable string. If these were fixed, it would be much easier to direct people to the correct license string etc. 3. There's no real documentation of the "size" parameter to checksums, and I'm constantly asking people to add the size. Note that I don't think "size" is a reasonable thing to require given that finding two files of the same size with the same SHA-2 hash is probably worth a doctoral dissertation at this point, but if we are going to require it (why do we require it?), it should be documented, and port lint should complain that it isn't there, and doing port -v checksums should spit it out if it isn't there. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com
