I hit "send" by error. On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Andrea D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote: > We should add a more explicit definition of what a "minor change" is > to both the non-maintainer update policy section in the Guide and to > the NewCommittersGuide page on wiki. > > I remember what a minor change is topic has been discussed but I > couldn't find it on the mailing list archive, possibly it happened on > IRC. > > The most similar topic I could find is [1] but this didn't lead to an actual change to three bullets list.
>From what I remember a "minor change" is a change that doesn't alter the set of installed files. This means for example that adding comments, moving around a block of code in portfile, editing homepage's value or moving from plain portfile to a portgroup to thin the portfile all fall into the definition of minor change; whereas adding a xinstall line, or updating version don't since the set of installed files is being altered. I'd like to hear from the list, or PortMgr, if this definition is good to be accepted as official. About the topic discussed at [1] I think many of the proposed points fall into minor changes. What would would streamline the update of ports would be declaring all ports openmaintainer unless so specified, thus inverting current usage. We could drop the use of openmaintainer and state an explicit (and rare) closedmaintainer for delicate ports on which maintainers want/need to have a strict control. [1] http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2009-July/009424.html Regards -- Andrea _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
