On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 02:23:10 -0800
"Chris H" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 10:25:17 +0100 "Matthieu Volat" <[email protected]> said
> 
> > On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 14:18:28 +0100
> > Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 02:13:09PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:  
> > > > Quoting Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> (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?
> 

They do... but only if you commit and push something (even if it's only a 
personnal clone). If you just keep the changes on your computer, there's 
nothing.

As much as I am defiant of github on certain aspects, I've found in quite some 
occasion the discussion/comment system around pull requests quite nice.

Regards,

--
Matthieu Volat <[email protected]>

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