Important: MacPorts PortMgr Changes

2008-09-30 Thread James Berry
As many of you know, MacPorts is loosely governed by the "PortMgr" team, which is currently made up of three people: Markus Weissmann, Juan Manual Palacios, and James Berry. We each love MacPorts, and hope to see it continue to prosper and grow in the future. And we want to continue to contr

Re: Important: MacPorts PortMgr Changes

2008-09-30 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Sounds like a good plan. +1 On Sep 30, 2008, at 9:18 AM, James Berry wrote: > As many of you know, MacPorts is loosely governed by the "PortMgr" > team, which is currently made up of three people: Markus Weissmann, > Juan Manual Palacios, and James Berry. > > We each love MacPorts, and hope to se

Re: Important: MacPorts PortMgr Changes

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Magrath
Not sure about the name but I love the idea. It'd be great to have a shorter release cycle between 1.x MacPorts releases. Paul. On 30 Sep 2008, at 17:18, James Berry wrote: > As many of you know, MacPorts is loosely governed by the "PortMgr" > team, which is currently made up of three people:

Re: Important: MacPorts PortMgr Changes

2008-09-30 Thread Ware, Ryan R
I can't say that I've been a part of this community for very long. However, I think some of my experience speaks to this. First off, Thanks to Markus, Juan and James for the job they've done in getting Macports to where it is now. I was mentally comparing my experience with Macports to the

Re: [PATCH] Inheritance of macports.conf configuration files

2008-09-30 Thread Adam Byrtek
There had been no response to my previous post (quoted below), so I decided to try again. Could one of the MacPorts maintainers take a look at the patch, please? This is actually quite a trivial change that will make the user configuration much more convenient. Best regards Adam Byrtek On Fri, A

Re: Important: MacPorts PortMgr Changes

2008-09-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
On Sep 30, 2008, at 9:18 AM, James Berry wrote: > We have asked Jordan Hubbard, the father of MacPorts, to join us on > the Elder Council, and he has given his tentative acceptance. First, let me thank James, Markus and Juan for having both the insight and the courage to recognize their own

Re: Important: MacPorts PortMgr Changes

2008-09-30 Thread Ernest Prabhakar
Hi Jordan, On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I think it's more accurate to refer to me as the "Godfather" of > MacPorts > since I got the project initially created and funded, and you can see > my fingerprints here and there in the design > so I really hope people will

Re: [40328] trunk/dports/textproc/sphinx/Portfile

2008-09-30 Thread Brett Eisenberg
I agree it's an awkward scenario; those changes were actually a user submitted patch, but I reviewed and considered the issues you're pointing out. While it's impossible to anticipate all usecases, it seems that Sphinx's userbase is almost entirely mysql-exclusive, so the general ideas in

Re: [PATCH] Inheritance of macports.conf configuration files

2008-09-30 Thread James Berry
Adam, Thanks for the patch. This looks good to me. Does anybody have a use case where inheritance is not the right thing here? James On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Adam Byrtek wrote: There had been no response to my previous post (quoted below), so I decided to try again. Could one of the M

Re: [PATCH] Inheritance of macports.conf configuration files

2008-09-30 Thread Rainer Müller
Adam Byrtek wrote: > There had been no response to my previous post (quoted below), so I > decided to try again. Could one of the MacPorts maintainers take a > look at the patch, please? This is actually quite a trivial change > that will make the user configuration much more convenient. Sometimes