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Kurt Jaeger
pi at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 18 08:33:55 UTC 2018
Hello,
> > > I did not say it was a bad idea to update the submitted port. I said it
> > > was a bad idea to do it without asking the submitter first.
> > I disagree: Waiting for submitter response on minor changes
> > does slow down or even stall the intended action. Yes, it might
> > educate the submitter, but at the expense of committer patience.
> > If we have better tools to estimate the submitter response time/quality,
> > that might change, but until then, it's better to ask for foregiveness
> > than to ask for permission.
> I totally agree, for minor changes, as explained in [1]. Changing the
> version of the software is not a minor change.
It is, most of the time.
> For this port, it should take about 2 minutes to create a patch
> with the new version, and open a PR with the update.
>From my experience, it would take more time. I'd rather not touch a
port/PR than do this dance.
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