Hello, I am interested in a specific subset of ports, some of which have no maintainer or still have a maintainer but in reality a "port abandoned" ticket would be in place. I don't want to be a maintainer for those, but: - I'm willing to look into bug reports for some ports without maintainer - I'm willing to test and commit changes to ports with a maintainer without commit rights - and I'm interested in simply following development of other ports (like wxWidgets where changes highly influence one of my own ports).
However, I'm not interested in following *all* the commits and *all* the tickets for MacPorts - that would simply take way too much time. I sometimes CC myself on some tickets, but only if I happen to see the ticket. Most of them go unnoticed. When someone submits a ticket, the maintainer gets CC-ed (if not by submitter, by the first one who sees that ticket). That is fine, but that excludes anyone else who might be interested in following maintenance of that port. Ideally I would like to subscribe to email sent to, say, [email protected] or [email protected] and if: - one would have to CC [email protected] instead of its maintainer - cron job of after-commit hook would send emails to that email address for any changes to that port in SVN then it would be a lot easier for some of us (without the resources to follow the whole macports repository) to help with patches, ideas, ... for exactly those ports that are of interest to us. One could have other pseudo-port addresses like port.new@ (for everyone interested in hearing about submissions for new ports), port.nomaintainer@ (for anyone interested in seeing tickets for unmaintained ports where the chance of nobody looking into report is higer), group.science@ (for all ports in a specific group), ticket.wontfix@ (for feedback of all tickets that won't get fixed for some reason), ... (those were just a few different ideas) Ideally I would like to have a page somewhere on trac.macports.org where I would click the list of ports (or groups/pseudoports) that I'm interested in following. The maintainer would of course have to be subscribed, but everyone else with interest could join. What do you think of this idea? Mojca _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
