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

Florent Thoumie flz at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 3 17:21:35 GMT 2005


Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> 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.

	Please, don't tell me you weren't already doing that :)
	I always wondered why we had sw-bug class.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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