Hi,
I recently took over maintainership of the devel/ice port and trying to get
familiar with the dos and don'ts of porting. In the past I contributed only by
sending PRs, which would have been approved by the maintainer. Since I'm the
maintainer now, will I still open normal PRs, which will
First, welcome!
Thank you for stepping up to the plate and taking on ownership of a port.
It is greatly appreciated.
As for pr's, yes, keep sending them. Your patches still need to be
committed to the ports tree by a committer.
When you send in a maintenance patch, subject should/could be
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Michael Gmelin free...@grem.de wrote:
b) I also have another massive patch which touches another 20 files which
enables some new security features in ice (the history of this patch is that
I developed it at first and submitted it to the vendor, who refined it
On Feb 24, 2012, at 14:55, Eitan Adler wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Michael Gmelin free...@grem.de wrote:
b) I also have another massive patch which touches another 20 files which
enables some new security features in ice (the history of this patch is that
I developed it at first
On 02/24/2012 06:18, Michael Gmelin wrote:
In general I agree with your reasoning. The feature I'm talking about has
been approved and will be in the next version (this happened almost half a
year ago). Unfortunately Ice has a slow release cycle, as it is dual licensed
(GPLv2+commercial).