On Oct 27, 2011, at 5:36 AM, Francois Claire wrote: >> ... and if you end up having to ping the list frequently for commits to >> happen, maybe you should apply for commit access yourself? :) >> > I did ask for commit access in the past and my request has been rejected. I > don't want to submit a new one: I don't have enough experience to write > portfiles and did several mistakes which have been catched by experienced > commiters. This helped me a lot and I learned a lot fixing them. > This check done by experienced committers aslo increased the quality of my > portfiles to the desired standard of the macports project, which reduced the > potential support requests for problems related to my portfiles.
We used to pair up new committers with experienced committers to help with this. I'm not portmgr, but since we have a constant need for more involvement in the project - it makes sense to try to get as many people interested in maintaining ports, and then committing ports (and maybe also working on base/) as is possible... -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
