svn commit: r228896 - head/contrib/netcat

[Doug Barton]

On 12/28/2011 15:03, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 15:00:07 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 12/28/2011 14:52, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
>>
>>> We have
>>>
>>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ContribSoftware
>>>
>>> that tries to track the state of anything upstream in src. 
>>
>> I've been maintaining BIND in the base for 9 1/2 years, and never knew
>> about that page ... the wiki is a good tool for some things, but IMO
>> this kind of information needs to be in the src tree where it is easily
>> available, archived for the future, etc.
> 
> Agreed. It would make branching that information a whole lot easier!
> 
> Any good ideas on how to implement this? It could be as simple as having
> all that information in /CONTRIB or something, similar to UPDATING or
> MAINTAINERS.

Well I still think a comment in the code, next to the foreign repo Id
would be the easiest way. In svn-world we tend to keep FREEBSD-Upgrade
files in $REPO/vendor/foo/dist/ rather than in src/contrib, otherwise
that might be a useful alternative.


Doug

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