On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Edd Barrett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hi I have to agree with you Kurt. We see a lot of diffs posted, that never get
> committed. I've always put it down to lack of developers, but I may be wrong.
There are several reasons why diffs aren't committed.
Sometimes diffs just aren't picked up, sometimes they are low-quality,
sometimes they are obsolete because a developer is working on a
diffrent solution to the problem...
A large fraction of the diffs posted here are from developers. Kurt
is a developer. He asked the community to test, but got no response.
In general a diff that has not been tested, will not gett committed.
This is especially true for the stable branches.
I think that a lot of developes (me including) have the same feelings
as Kurt. It is hard to get test reports, while at the same time people
do complain a lot about outdated ports, for example.
-Otto
>
> Edd
>
> Kurt Miller wrote:
> > From: "Robert Nagy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > Yes mozilla and thunderbird are also affected. The only problem
> > > is that these ports are too big and it is a pain in the ass to
> > > backport them if we had a lot of change in the infrastructure.
> > > Fixing these ports in 3.7 is an easy job but 3.6 will be harder,
> > > that's why you haven't seen any firefox diff for 3.6 yet.
> > > If someone really wants to help w/backporting these bastards,
> > > please stand up. I could really use some help in this part.
> >
> >
> > I backported mozilla to 3.5 and 3.6 -stable three months ago
> > and received zero feedback from the list.
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-ports&m=111230379619066&w=2
> >
> > It was very disappointing, especially considering the amount of
> > work I put into it. People come here and demand -stable updates,
> > but can't take the time test them. If those updates were tested I
> > would have committed them, making the minor version updates
> > trivial.... oh well. I suppose I'll try again.
> >
> > -Kurt
> >
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