On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 15:11:33 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 04:40:49PM +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > It's better to have one person > > (Xin LI) figure out if the change is needed or a no-op and do the > > upgrade to match our version to upstream's version, than to have a > > discrepancy between the two and cause half a dozen developers that > > stumble upon that difference to scratch their heads and spend time in > > figuring out if we should import the change. > > We already have the following wiki page: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsNotUpgraded > > Perhaps an analagous page for src would be helpful? > > mcl
We have http://wiki.freebsd.org/ContribSoftware that tries to track the state of anything upstream in src. Maintainers are encouraged to add notes to their entries if there are reasons the software is kept at a lower version or whatever. See also the section for GPLv3'ed software on that page. Cheers, Uli _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
