cvs commit: ports/archivers/rar Makefile

[Erwin Lansing]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:39:49PM -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:34:39 -0500
> Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> mentioned:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 06:39:51PM +0545, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> > > It would be nice to receive a failure notification about such things. I  
> > > didn't get anything neither for this one nor for the previous one. These  
> > > notifications worked before and there were no commits like this without  
> > > notifying the maintainer.
> > 
> > I guess I've erred on the side of not notifying people about breakages on
> > systems that we don't have tinderboxen for, just to avoid filling up
> > people's mailboxes.  What do other people think?  Am I making a mistake?
> > 
> > (Yes, in a perfect world we have tinderboxen for these ...)
> > 
> 
> I think it's right thing to do for now.  Most people don't have any resources
> to fix/test these, and it's not a tier1 platform, so I don't think it make
> much sense to bother people with these failures.
> 
Also, it requires a lot of effort to keep track of these failures, which
have had a message sent, how long ago, and if more than x days without
reply or commit, mark it broken.  Given those are Tier-2 platforms and
the low frequency of errors, I would say that portmgr can use their time
better on other matters.

-erwin

-- 
Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
Prediction is very difficult
especially about the future                    erwin at FreeBSD.org
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