Ability for maintainers to update own ports
Oliver Eikemeier
eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Mon Nov 10 03:15:06 PST 2003
Sam Lawrance wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Neglecting implementation details, has anybody considered the
> possibility of allowing MAINTAINERs who don't have commit privileges to
> somehow commit updates to ports they maintain?
>
> Where do people see problems lie with such an idea? (Eg. keeping the
> tree sane, controlling access, vetting changes etc)
>
> I feel that a well thought out and implemented system could be highly
> beneficial to everyone, reducing the number of ports PRs and letting
> port updates flow through a little faster.
>
> Pick it to bits, if there are solutions I want to find them :)
You might want to have a look into NetBSD's pkgsrc-wip:
http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/
See Thomas's announcement to the tech-pkg MailingList for more details:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2003/03/25/0001.html
It's not exactly what you propose, but a step in the same direction: get more
people involved in the ports system.
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