saving a few ports from death

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> I need to migrate portsmon to another server so that we can start up
> these periodic emails again.
>
> mcl
> _______________________________________________
>



With the large number of ports to be maintained , tasks to be performed
becomes very complex .


The current structure of problem report submitting and e-mails about current
problems may be modified to reduce the tasks to be performed even for
slightly.


On the problem report submitting page ,

http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

the following fields may be added to make it more structured and to be able
to generate e-mails to maintainers directly :

Remove field Category .

Add the following fields :

FreeBSD Version : ( Selected from a drop-down list like Category )
FreeBSD Architecture : ( Selected from list ... )

Related to

( Radio Button )  Base  : Program Name : ...
                                    in Directory : ...


 ---------------------------------------------------------
                         Port : Port Name in .../Latest/ Directory : ...
                                  Port Version :

                          If there is a working version in another
                          operating system Name : ...
                          operating system Version : ...
                          Port Name : ...
                          Port Version : ...
                          Source Repository URL :

---------------------------------------------------------




Into Class field : Add item : Feature Suggestion .


Under the box "How to repeat the problem" ,

add    Which tests are applied :
add    Testing software available :
add    Testing Software URL :


With the above structure , it is possible

 . to generate e-mails to maintainers automatically ,
 . to eliminate problem reports when operating system or port version
numbers of the respective ports changes by moving them to an archive .


Problem report query page

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?query


may be adapted accordingly .

...........................................................


In e-mails , a more structured listing will be helpful :


PR           FreeBSD   FreeBSD        Port     Port
Number    Version     Architecture    Name   Version   Description
-----------    -------------   ------------------    ---------   ----------
  -----------------


In the present system , mentioning only the category with vague descriptions
causes difficulty to understand structure of the problem , at least for
persons foreigner to port maintenance  .


Also , supplying a link to problem report numbers during generation of
e-mails automatically makes them easily accessible .


Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk