Working on FLAVOR support in portmaster

Chris H bsd-lists at BSDforge.com
Sat Dec 9 10:21:56 UTC 2017


On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 10:25:17 +0100 "Matthieu Volat" <mazhe at alkumuna.eu> said

> On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 14:18:28 +0100
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 02:13:09PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > Quoting Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> (from Thu, 7 Dec 2017
> > 14:54:27
> > > +0100):
> > >   
> > > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 02:49:45PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:  
> > >   
> > > > > Alternatively, how would a FreeBSD committer like Stefan or
> > > > > Torsten or me or whoever gain write access to
> > > > > https://github.com/freebsd/portmaster/ so get some progress in
> > > > > the official portmaster location and create a new release
> > > > > (sorry my ignorance for github and how it works, I'm used to
> > > > > CVS/SVN workflows)?  
> > > > 
> > > > They just need to ask git admins to get access, I have already asked
> > > > Stefan (not
> > > > reply yet)
> > > > 
> > > > They can also ask me directly if they want given I am part of the git
> > admins  
> > > 
> > > And I see that I'm already part of the FreeBSD organisation on github, so
> > I
> > > should have access. So... currently portmaster is wild-wild-west
> > territory?
> > > No real owner, anyone willing to fix/improve is free to do so, and it's up
> > > to each individual to wear his fireproof-suite (after flavours is settled
> > I
> > > would be interested to have a look at the local packages installation pull
> > > request)?
> > >   
> > 
> > The official maintainer is tz@ for now, he just handed the maintainership to
> > se@
> > 
> > As for push access for now, only git-admin (which I am part of) and bdrewery
> > (who use to maintain portmaster) have access. I'll be glad to give push acces
> > to
> > more people.
> > 
> > For now I have pushed patches from Stefan in the repo (not the flavor
> > support
> > but the preliminary to it)
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Bapt
> 
> 
> Would it be possible to have some page to track/show the changes/progress to
> the code? For some times, we had a lot of "i'm working on it but behind
> closed doors".
> 
> For that kind of tools, it would be nice to see the process of upgrading
> portmaster (or any other tool for that matter) and get a bit more familiar
> with the code.
> 
> Even a wip branch would be great to involve more people, and that way, people
> would be a bit less in the dark, but that is just my 2 cents...

Doesn't the GitHub activity graphs, diffs, and commit logs already provide
this information? Or have I just misunderstood the question?

--Chris
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> --
> Matthieu Volat <mazhe at alkumuna.eu>




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