On 12/28/2011 15:03, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 15:00:07 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 12/28/2011 14:52, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: >> >>> We have >>> >>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ContribSoftware >>> >>> that tries to track the state of anything upstream in src. >> >> I've been maintaining BIND in the base for 9 1/2 years, and never knew >> about that page ... the wiki is a good tool for some things, but IMO >> this kind of information needs to be in the src tree where it is easily >> available, archived for the future, etc. > > Agreed. It would make branching that information a whole lot easier! > > Any good ideas on how to implement this? It could be as simple as having > all that information in /CONTRIB or something, similar to UPDATING or > MAINTAINERS.
Well I still think a comment in the code, next to the foreign repo Id would be the easiest way. In svn-world we tend to keep FREEBSD-Upgrade files in $REPO/vendor/foo/dist/ rather than in src/contrib, otherwise that might be a useful alternative. Doug -- You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ _______________________________________________ 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"