New port with maintainer ports@FreeBSD.org [was: Question about maintainers]

Pav Lucistnik pav at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 31 11:02:02 GMT 2005


Mark Linimon píše v pá 29. 07. 2005 v 16:10 -0500:

> > Whole another deal is if we should be fixing flaws in the software
> > itself, or even adding new features.
> 
> Nope.  The Ports Collection should be a framework for installing
> someone's else's software on FreeBSD.  PRs about new features, or bugs
> in the softwanre itself, need to be closed and the submitter referred
> to the author(s).  IIRC the PR Submission Guidelines state this.  PRs
> should be about something not working _on FreeBSD specifically_.

Good to hear that from someone wearing portmgr's hat. I'll start
enforcing this from now on.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

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