Ability for maintainers to update own ports

Will Andrews will at csociety.org
Mon Nov 10 08:36:27 PST 2003


On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:39:58AM +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote:
> I guess that's one of the challenges to be dealt with. Having briefly
> examined nbsd's pkgsrc-wip I think it is a good source of QA. I would
> like to combine this with a better way of channeling changes back into
> the tree. Best of both worlds - faster/wider distribution of new
> changes, larger base of reviewers.
> 
> But you are right - anything that lowers the quality of the ports tree
> would be an absolute no-go.

Sorry, but if you are unhappy with the speed at which ports get
updated, become a regular and you'll get a commit bit.  It's just
that simple.  For most maintainers it's not worth the effort
because practice makes a better porter.

Regards,
-- 
wca


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