On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:00:12 +0100 Daniel Silverstone wrote: > To: netsurf-dev@netsurf-browser.org > Subject: Re: Job spec of a port maintainer > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 18:31:36 +0100, Sprow wrote: >> Is there a definition somewhere of what's involved? > > As this is open-source/free-software work there's rarely anything written > down. > > My understanding of a port maintainer (for us at least) would be someone > who > can commit to being around on-channel at least a bit; is competent in the > use > of, and development of, applications on their target system, can respond > in a > timely fashion to tickets, ideally within a few days even if only to say > thanks, I need to think about this; and will jump on front-end failures > evident > in the CI system within a day or two at most. > > Ideally they'd also be interested in learning about and assisting with > the core > of the NetSurf codebase, and also our libraries; since all ports rely on > those > to a greater or lesser extent. > >> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2266 >> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2170 >> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2336 >> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2289 > > Thank you. Hopefully Dave Higton may get to these, he has been > invaluable recently :-)
I think you exaggerate my usefulness, but thank you all the same :-) >> but they presumably need reviewing. I know from a day job in engineering >> not >> to review my own code! I'll try to look at them tonight. Dave ____________________________________________________________ Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. Check it out at http://mysecurelogon.com/password-manager
