Questions about order of adding application to freebsd ports.

[Borodin Oleg]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 10:24:38 +0200
Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > > > I ask for little advice.
> > > > I wrote web manager X.509 certificates http://minica.unix7.org/ and created a freebsd port for it.
> > > > 
> > > > 1. Who could check quality and security of this code?    
> > > 
> > > The committer would check the port quality etc.  
> > 
> > Next dummy question from novice, excuse me =)
> > 
> > How to become a new committer for a new port?  
> 
> There are two roles: The maintainer (the person that decides what
> changes go into a port), and the committer (the person that
> has commit rights to the freebsd port repository).
> 
> For a new port, the submitter of the new port is normally also the
> maintainer.
> 
> I found your port and patches at
> 
> http://minica.unix7.org/
> 
> and will have a look, anyway (if I find the time).
> 
> > > Submit patches via bugs.freebsd.org for the two ports, and
> > > the maintainers will decide if they include them.  
> > 
> > If they do not answer for a long-long time?  
> 
> Then the PR / patch runs into a maintainer timeout (14 days) and any
> committer can override the maintainer (if the patch is valid).
> 
> > Or the committer will have a bad mood?  
> 
> There are more committers, so one committer is hopefully not the bottleneck.
> If one committer is not doing the job, poke another one to ask to take over. 
> 
> > So already it was some times.  
> 
> If you have cases like that (and I'm guilty of that as well),
> post the PR number here and some other committer will pick it up.
> 

Thank you too, Kurt, I will follow your instructions as you go along.


With best regards,

Oleg Borodin
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borodin at unix7.org
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