What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

[Aryeh Friedman]

I would be willing to help write some scripts to start/stop the VM's
(PetiteCloud does a command line that will be better documented and such in
the next version or two)


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Big Lebowski <spankthespam at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
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>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Big Lebowski <spankthespam at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> Hi everyone,
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>>> I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what
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>>> the problem? It seems to me, as a ports contributor, that this time is
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>>> growing, not shrinking, and there's no formal/automated procedures that
>>> would help in managing the issue.
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>>> Today I found myself fighting with ezjail only to discover it has issues
>>> working on FreeBSD 10.0-R. Great, I thought, there must be something
>>> else,
>>> so I went to make the research. It appears there isnt much more, and the
>>> alternatives are qjail that seems to be quite dated and zjails, that's
>>> not
>>> in ports. Not long after looking into zjails, what seems to be a great
>>> tool, I found its port submission sits there since... September 2013.
>>> Now,
>>> given the fact the Docker is on mouth of everyone, and containers are
>>> getting a lot of attention, FreeBSD looks really bad with no tools to
>>> manage such great technology like Jails, especially when ezjail,
>>> unofficial
>>> industry standard to manage jails, is now broken and zjails waits to be
>>> accepted (or even rejected) for so much time.
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>> Why not test on a VM instead of a jail it seems this is a even more
>> accurate test because you can run bare metal installs (I have run to some
>> ports [including some of my own]) that worked with jail/tinderbox but
>> failed a full bare metal install.   Take a look at -virtualization@ for
>> ideas, the proposed handbook entry on virtualization (
>> http://www.petitecloud.org) or just use a front end like petitecloud
>> (yes yet an other port waiting for comitting [one this one there are some
>> bugs though])
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>> What is the problem? Isnt there enought commiters? Isnt there a automated
>>> PR handling procedure reminding commiters with relevant access about such
>>> submissions? Can we help? I hope to spark some discussion.
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>> I have made a couple of scripts for automated this for specific ports but
>> not for all (the VM test method)... if you want I can post them (they are
>> high;y specific to installing the petitecloud port though)
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>> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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> I think you've got me wrong - I am following freebsd-virtualization list
> very closely, and the matter I've touched here is not my doubt on which
> technology I should use, but rather a complaint on the state of jails
> related tools directly leading to the delays in handling of ports related
> PR's. I know the technology alternatives, I am decided to jails for a
> reason, and I also know your work on the web interface focusing on bhyve,
> but its not about it.
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> B.
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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org