joshua stein <j...@jcs.org> writes:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 18:29:27 +0100, Marc Espie wrote: >> In my opinion, our main issue is the lack of new blood. >> >> We have chronically fewer people who can give okays than ports waiting. >> >> One big "meta" stuff that needs doing is pointing out (especially from >> new guys) what can be improved in the documentation of the porting process... >> sometimes pointing people in the right direction. >> >> Informal poll: what thing weirded you guys out the first time you touched >> OpenBSD ports coming from other platforms. >> >> What kind of gotcha can we get rid of, so that "new ports" will tend to >> be squeaky clean, infrastructure-wise, and ready for import. >> >> Maybe we'd need an FAQ from people coming from elsewhere explaining the >> main differences to (say) deb, rpm, freebsd ?... > > Using CVS and dealing with tarballs is probably pretty > ancient-feeling for many outsiders. I don't know that more > documentation is really the problem. > > I personally tend to ignore most ports@ emails that aren't diffs I > can easily view in my e-mail client because it's a hassle to save > the attachment, tar -t it to see what its directory structure is, > untar it in the proper place, try to build it, then provide feedback > by copying parts of the Makefile to an e-mail or doing some other > work to produce a diff. > > Maybe we can do something radical like enable GitHub pull requests > to let people submit changes against the ports repo on GitHub, do > review and feedback on those on GitHub, and once it's been approved > by a developer, that developer can do the final legwork of > committing it to CVS and closing the pull request (since we can't > commit directly to the Git repo). > > I believe that the GitHub repo can be configured to also email > ports@openbsd.org on any submissions/comments there, so the mailing > list would still be in the loop on everything for anyone that > doesn't want to use GitHub. This would be awesome! I bet we could even automate the closing after something was committed to CVS!
