svn commit: r337389 - head/sysutils/hdup/files

[John Marino]

On 12/26/2013 14:09, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> +--On 24 décembre 2013 21:35:54 +0000 John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org>
> wrote:
> | Log:
> |   sysutils/hdup: Unbreak on FreeBSD 10+
> |   
> |   The breakage was caused by processing makefiles with bmake instead of
> | the   specified gmake.
> |   
> |   PR:		ports/184617
> |   Approved by:	maintainer timeout
> 
> Just splitting hairs a bit, here, but, your commit was not approved by
> anything, to be exact, it should have read more like :
> 
> ------
> sysutils/hdup: Unbreak on FreeBSD 10+
> 
> The breakage was caused by processing makefiles with bmake instead of the
> specified gmake.
> 
> maintainer timeout (here an optional number of days/months, if you like)
> 
> PR:		ports/184617

Does it matter?  This is how I did all my commit messages during the
probation period.  Anyway, I interpret "timeout" as implicit permission
so I always thought it did apply.


> Also, I think I got most of your fix commits, but in the future, would you
> mind asking about permission and then merging the commits that fix build to
> the quarterly release by yourself ?
> 
> You mostly only have to run :
> /usr/ports/Tools/script/mfh 2014Q1 xxxx
> 
> where xxxx is the revision number to merge :-)


Now we have a philosophical problem.
One thing I preferred with ports over pkgsrc is that ports didn't have
quarterly branches, which I despise.  Now, suddenly, it does.  We
(DragonFly) don't use quarterlies and if asked, I would have vehemently
voted against having them.  So at the risk of appearing unfriendly, why
should I be expected to pay attention to these, which now multiplies my
work by 200-400%?  (depending on how many simultaneous quarterlies are
to be supported).  Plus, as you mention, these ports have maintainers
that should be responsible for both the original commit and the
quarterly maintenance (pending answer to my provoking question).

Regards,
John

P.S. I see a post by bapt that sort of addresses this, but I don't want
quarterly branch to be a success.  :)