Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-29 Thread Big Lebowski
Unfortunately, nothing is happening. I expected to hear some voices about certain ideas that have popped up, like: * can we cut off old and 'unloved' PR's in order to reduce the amount of work and make reassessment of that amount * can we use people who volunteered to work on the PR's * can we

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-29 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! Unfortunately, nothing is happening. I expected to hear some voices about certain ideas that have popped up, like: * can we cut off old and 'unloved' PR's in order to reduce the amount of work and make reassessment of that amount There is the other view of this which says PRs do not

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-29 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Kurt Jaeger li...@opsec.eu wrote: Hi! Unfortunately, nothing is happening. I expected to hear some voices about certain ideas that have popped up, like: * can we cut off old and 'unloved' PR's in order to reduce the amount of work and make

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-29 Thread Bernhard Fröhlich
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Kurt Jaeger li...@opsec.eu wrote: Hi! Unfortunately, nothing is happening. I expected to hear some voices about certain ideas that have popped up, like: * can we

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-29 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Bernhard Fröhlich de...@freebsd.orgwrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Kurt Jaeger li...@opsec.eu wrote: Hi! Unfortunately, nothing is happening. I

What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-28 Thread Daniel Siechniewicz
Hi, Just a little stick in this anthill: - I've seen a few people volunteering, but so far the reaction seems to be: oh, yeah, well, ah, cool. I'd expect, with all the talk about how much they are needed, that they will be snatched immediately and coerced into doing unspeakable things (like

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-28 Thread Jim Ohlstein
On 1/28/14, 10:04 AM, Daniel Siechniewicz wrote: Hi, Just a little stick in this anthill: - I've seen a few people volunteering, but so far the reaction seems to be: oh, yeah, well, ah, cool. I'd expect, with all the talk about how much they are needed, that they will be snatched immediately

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-28 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
El 28/01/2014 16:04, Daniel Siechniewicz dan...@nulldowntime.com escribió: Hi, Just a little stick in this anthill: - I've seen a few people volunteering, but so far the reaction seems to be: oh, yeah, well, ah, cool. I'd expect, with all the talk about how much they are needed, that they

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
There have been some messages in this thread about users volunteering to check port PRs. What would this involve as to time and software setup on one's own computer? I have some limited time, but am not using poudriere. I don't want to be too disruptive to existing FreeBSD installation. With

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-27 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! There have been some messages in this thread about users volunteering to check port PRs. What would this involve as to time and software setup on one's own computer? I use the following workflow: 1) daily update to the /usr/ports tree using cd /usr/ports svn --non-interactive

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-27 Thread Lars Engels
Am 2014-01-25 05:30, schrieb Aryeh Friedman: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.orgwrote: (maybe there is some great ports system that I'm not aware of that makes this all as easy github, but I somehow doubt that.) Nice to be able to plug something other

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Sorry was just putting why I used the mentioned ports in context (I believe in real life examples instead of made up ones for that)... any other mention of it in the thread was only because it was a convenient example that didn't violate an nda or something else. On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:29

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Big Lebowski
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 25/01/2014 10:35, Big Lebowski wrote: Thus, are you volunteering for this role? It's not my call, but if you really want to do clean out and triage the all PRs on an ongoing basis, my guess is that would be

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Big Lebowski
that but we get emotionally attached to technologies that are old, dying and dead when off the shelf stuff works just fine. I've read all 60 or so messages in this thread and there really are two related but distinct issues here. The thread title is What is the problem with ports PR

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Gary J. Hayers
On 26/01/2014 13:06, Big Lebowski wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.orgwrote: Does it have to be all-or-nothing situation, where we can do something only if we have 20-50 people looking at 6-15 PR's a week, and we cant do anything if we dont? Cant we start

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Big Lebowski
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Gary J. Hayers g...@hayers.org wrote: On 26/01/2014 13:06, Big Lebowski wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: Does it have to be all-or-nothing situation, where we can do something only if we have 20-50 people

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Gary J. Hayers
On 26/01/2014 13:32, Big Lebowski wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Gary J. Hayers g...@hayers.org wrote: Suspect this would work, however, the more committers the less the quality of work? Is there any evidence to support that argument? Or is it just a fear of that? At any point if

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Big Lebowski
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Gary J. Hayers g...@hayers.org wrote: On 26/01/2014 13:32, Big Lebowski wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Gary J. Hayers g...@hayers.org wrote: Suspect this would work, however, the more committers the less the quality of work? Is there any

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Gary J. Hayers
On 26/01/2014 14:05, Big Lebowski wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Gary J. Hayers g...@hayers.org wrote: At no point I've suggested anything regarding portmgr team, and I am not in position to judge needs of any changes in that place. It seems however, that with the portsmgr-lurker

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?. This has meandered into a philosophical debate about who knows what and who knows squat about version control systems, whether we need to maintain certain requirements, testing ports, etc. I like the KISS approach myself. This can be boiled

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
just fine. I've read all 60 or so messages in this thread and there really are two related but distinct issues here. The thread title is What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?. This has meandered into a philosophical debate about who knows what and who knows squat about version

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
is What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?. This has meandered into a philosophical debate about who knows what and who knows squat about version control systems, whether we need to maintain certain requirements, testing ports, etc. I like the KISS approach myself. This can be boiled

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/01/2014 13:06, Big Lebowski wrote: Does it have to be all-or-nothing situation, where we can do something only if we have 20-50 people looking at 6-15 PR's a week, and we cant do anything if we dont? Cant we start with 2-3 people (3 people so far volunteered to do so, and I belive a

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
to technologies that are old, dying and dead when off the shelf stuff works just fine. I've read all 60 or so messages in this thread and there really are two related but distinct issues here. The thread title is What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?. This has meandered

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
just fine. I've read all 60 or so messages in this thread and there really are two related but distinct issues here. The thread title is What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?. This has meandered into a philosophical debate about who knows what and who knows squat about version

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 06:01:16PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 4:05 PM, Yuri wrote: On 01/25/2014 15:48, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Git hup (or*ANY* remote service for that matter) is a no go IMO But both Debian and Fedora do this with automated remote testing, and they don't

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 06:04:52PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 3:48 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 01/25/2014 14:44, Aryeh Friedman wrote: The key seems to be that no one has time to do the stuff they really want

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
related but distinct issues here. The thread title is What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?. This has meandered into a philosophical debate about who knows what and who knows

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Pawel Biernacki
On 26 January 2014 18:34, Big Lebowski spankthes...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Big Lebowski spankthes...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:30 AM Subject: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays? To: freebsd-ports freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays? To: freebsd-ports freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Hi everyone, I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what is the problem? It seems to me, as a ports contributor, that this time is only growing, not shrinking

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Yuri
On 01/25/2014 11:38, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: We just recovered from cvs-svn switch I think noone at all is willing to do the job again. Git has lots of drawbacks and if badly handled with all the above, it will be a real nightmare. and That is said from someone who likes git (except that the

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
) If aegis is so much better then we should use it. Or everyone should use it... but why isn't everyone using it? Simple reason Peter Miller (the author of aegis/cook) for whatever reason *NEVER* tried to market his stuff while GIT made a specific effort of attempting to get outside users.

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/26/14, 6:43 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: ) If aegis is so much better then we should use it. Or everyone should use it... but why isn't everyone using it? Simple reason Peter Miller (the author of aegis/cook) for whatever reason *NEVER* tried to market his stuff while GIT made a

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.orgwrote: I'm not addicted to newness. I think you just hate anything that is popular and you're butthurt that something that's may have been ahead of it's time was missed out on. This is no reason to dig your heels in and

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/26/14 9:02 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.org mailto:alf...@freebsd.org wrote: When your toy has a huge community that fulfills the requirements that I have I'll check it out. When switching to Aegis gets

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.orgwrote: I'm not sure, I'm going to go load up healthcare.gov to see if I can order myself some free aspirin after this discussion. At least my build system has never caused me to need an aspirin (normal debugging is bad

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/26/14, 10:56 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.org mailto:alf...@freebsd.org wrote: I'm not sure, I'm going to go load up healthcare.gov http://healthcare.gov to see if I can order myself some free aspirin after

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 1/26/14, 10:56 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.orgwrote: I'm not sure, I'm going to go load up healthcare.gov to see if I can order myself some free

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Yuri
On 01/24/2014 20:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: (maybe there is some great ports system that I'm not aware of that makes this all as easy github, but I somehow doubt that.) github itself is closed source, but 95% of its functionality is based on git which is open. One only needs to invoke 3-4

Fwd: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 01/24/2014 20:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: (maybe there is some great ports system that I'm not aware of that makes this all as easy github, but I somehow doubt that.) github itself is closed source, but 95% of its functionality

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/24/14, 11:45 PM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 05:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Thus, are you volunteering for this role? It's not my call, but if you really want to do clean out and triage the all PRs on an ongoing basis, my guess is that would be very welcome and we'd figure out a way

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14, 12:11 AM, Yuri wrote: On 01/24/2014 20:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: (maybe there is some great ports system that I'm not aware of that makes this all as easy github, but I somehow doubt that.) github itself is closed source, but 95% of its functionality is based on git which is

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread John Marino
On 1/25/2014 09:55, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/24/14, 11:45 PM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 05:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Thus, are you volunteering for this role? It's not my call, but if you really want to do clean out and triage the all PRs on an ongoing basis, my guess is that

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Big Lebowski
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:47 AM, John Marino freebsd.cont...@marino.stwrote: On 1/25/2014 01:36, Big Lebowski wrote: I was hoping to get some discussion revealing how the work is organized around ports PR, perhaps some ideas on improving them and I hoped that people who can make decisions

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Big Lebowski
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 1/24/14, 11:45 PM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 05:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Thus, are you volunteering for this role? It's not my call, but if you really want to do clean out and triage the all PRs on an

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/01/2014 10:35, Big Lebowski wrote: Thus, are you volunteering for this role? It's not my call, but if you really want to do clean out and triage the all PRs on an ongoing basis, my guess is that would be very welcome and we'd figure out a way to set that up. It would definitely

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Bernhard Fröhlich
Am 25.01.2014 02:12 schrieb Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com: I think you've got me wrong - I am following freebsd-virtualization list very closely, and the matter I've touched here is not my doubt on which technology I should use, but rather a complaint on the state of jails

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Big Lebowski
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Bernhard Fröhlich de...@bluelife.atwrote: Am 25.01.2014 02:12 schrieb Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com: I think you've got me wrong - I am following freebsd-virtualization list very closely, and the matter I've touched here is not my doubt on

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Bernhard Fröhlich
Am 25.01.2014 13:35 schrieb Big Lebowski spankthes...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Bernhard Fröhlich de...@bluelife.at wrote: Am 25.01.2014 02:12 schrieb Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com: I think you've got me wrong - I am following freebsd-virtualization

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14, 1:14 AM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 09:55, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/24/14, 11:45 PM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 05:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Thus, are you volunteering for this role? It's not my call, but if you really want to do clean out and triage the all PRs

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread John Marino
On 1/25/2014 18:11, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Still missing the point. Git can sit on top of svn. Other than converting SVN to Git, I don't know anything about that. It would never be done in an official capacity. Git is not an official tool of FreeBSD. From what I'm reading you may know

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
By the way, this wasn't about switching to git (although that would be nice), this is about leveraging existing tools. One can very easily use git-svn bridge to push git changes into subversion. Or you can try to re-implement a patch queue based system yourself using a bunch of duct tape and

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14, 9:28 AM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 18:11, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Still missing the point. Git can sit on top of svn. Other than converting SVN to Git, I don't know anything about that. It would never be done in an official capacity. Git is not an official tool of

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:16:39PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/24/14, 4:47 PM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 01:36, Big Lebowski wrote: I was hoping to get some discussion revealing how the work is organized around ports PR, perhaps some ideas on improving them and I hoped that

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:57:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14, 12:11 AM, Yuri wrote: On 01/24/2014 20:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: (maybe there is some great ports system that I'm not aware of that makes this all as easy github, but I somehow doubt that.) github itself

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Making proper merge from github pull request it not that easy, you will need to fetch pull request as custom branches and cherry-pick them. That is really not convenient. devel/tailor was designed specifically for this case (the actual case it does is aegis --- svn) but same basic idea --

Fwd: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:34 PM Subject: Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays? To: John Marino dragonfly...@marino.st You are solving the wrong problem. And nobody is reinventing

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:11:24AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14, 1:14 AM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 09:55, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/24/14, 11:45 PM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 05:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Thus, are you volunteering for this role? It's not

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:36:00AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14, 9:28 AM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 18:11, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Still missing the point. Git can sit on top of svn. Other than converting SVN to Git, I don't know anything about that. It would

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:53:41PM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Making proper merge from github pull request it not that easy, you will need to fetch pull request as custom branches and cherry-pick them. That is really not convenient. devel/tailor was designed specifically for this

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14 9:48 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:16:39PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: To me it would speak of tooling as opposed to anything. Does the ports system have a 1 or 2 click interface for merging PRs like for instance github? Could ports take PRs in the

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14 9:51 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:57:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14, 12:11 AM, Yuri wrote: On 01/24/2014 20:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: (maybe there is some great ports system that I'm not aware of that makes this all as easy github, but

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14 10:04 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:36:00AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14, 9:28 AM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 18:11, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Still missing the point. Git can sit on top of svn. Other than converting SVN to Git, I don't

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:25:07AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 9:48 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:16:39PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: To me it would speak of tooling as opposed to anything. Does the ports system have a 1 or 2 click interface

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:27:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 10:04 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:36:00AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14, 9:28 AM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 18:11, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Still missing the point.

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14 10:32 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:27:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 10:04 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:36:00AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14, 9:28 AM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 18:11, Alfred

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14 10:30 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:25:07AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 9:48 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:16:39PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: To me it would speak of tooling as opposed to anything. Does the

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:41:22AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 10:32 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:27:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 10:04 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:36:00AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:41:51AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 10:30 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:25:07AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 9:48 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:16:39PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14 10:59 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:41:22AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 10:32 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:27:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 10:04 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25,

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:06:33AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 10:59 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:41:22AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 10:32 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:27:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:26:30AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 9:51 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:57:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14, 12:11 AM, Yuri wrote: On 01/24/2014 20:16, Alfred Perlstein wrote: (maybe there is some great ports

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14 11:52 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:26:30AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14 9:51 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:57:21AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/25/14, 12:11 AM, Yuri wrote: On 01/24/2014 20:16, Alfred

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Montgomery-Smith, Stephen
On 01/24/2014 05:30 PM, Big Lebowski wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what is the problem? It seems to me, as a ports contributor, that this time is only growing, not shrinking, and there's no formal/automated procedures that would help

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Ruslan Makhmatkhanov
Alfred Perlstein wrote on 25.01.2014 22:41: Are any of these tools available on the other side? Ie, for port submitters? yes porttools for example, or some scripts inside Tools/scripts regards, Bapt Is there a primer on using these tools? /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/getpatch category/PR --

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Yuri
On 01/25/2014 05:43, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote: With the scripts it should be possible to fetch the patch of a PR, apply and commit it to your redports repository and do additional changes until you are okay with it. What is still missing is a script that helps committing the changes to the

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 01/25/2014 05:43, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote: With the scripts it should be possible to fetch the patch of a PR, apply and commit it to your redports repository and do additional changes until you are okay with it. What is still

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Yuri
On 01/25/2014 14:44, Aryeh Friedman wrote: The key seems to be that no one has time to do the stuff they really want to do (get new ports into the system)... to that end automating everything that can be automated is sure help free up comitter time so they can look at what is interesting Yes.

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 01/25/2014 14:44, Aryeh Friedman wrote: The key seems to be that no one has time to do the stuff they really want to do (get new ports into the system)... to that end automating everything that can be automated is sure help free

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Yuri
On 01/25/2014 15:48, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Git hup (or*ANY* remote service for that matter) is a no go IMO But both Debian and Fedora do this with automated remote testing, and they don't seem to complain. How is our ports different in this respect? Yuri

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14 4:05 PM, Yuri wrote: On 01/25/2014 15:48, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Git hup (or*ANY* remote service for that matter) is a no go IMO But both Debian and Fedora do this with automated remote testing, and they don't seem to complain. How is our ports different in this respect? I

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14 3:41 PM, Yuri wrote: On 01/25/2014 14:44, Aryeh Friedman wrote: The key seems to be that no one has time to do the stuff they really want to do (get new ports into the system)... to that end automating everything that can be automated is sure help free up comitter time so they can

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/25/14 3:48 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 01/25/2014 14:44, Aryeh Friedman wrote: The key seems to be that no one has time to do the stuff they really want to do (get new ports into the system)... to that end automating

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 1/25/14 3:48 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 01/25/2014 14:44, Aryeh Friedman wrote: The key seems to be that no one has time to do the stuff they really

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I never said our selves it is outsourced to the developer/maintainer with 100% automated stuff... once I am doing with the next small version of petitecloud I will post the 6 line script we use to test the port (including cranking up a few vm's)... have fun doing that anywhere else Got bored

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Jim Ohlstein
the shelf stuff works just fine. I've read all 60 or so messages in this thread and there really are two related but distinct issues here. The thread title is What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?. This has meandered into a philosophical debate about who knows what and who knows squat

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I like the KISS approach myself. This can be boiled down to those two issues, one of which is a symptom of the other. Arguing and debating over a long term solution to the OP's question does nothing to solve the problem in the short to intermediate term. There are 1680 current ports related

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-25 Thread Jim Ohlstein
Hello, On 1/25/14, 10:33 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I like the KISS approach myself. This can be boiled down to those two issues, one of which is a symptom of the other. Arguing and debating over a long term solution to the OP's question does nothing to solve the problem in the

What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread Big Lebowski
Hi everyone, I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what is the problem? It seems to me, as a ports contributor, that this time is only growing, not shrinking, and there's no formal/automated procedures that would help in managing the issue. Today I found myself

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread John Marino
On 1/25/2014 00:30, Big Lebowski wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what is the problem? It seems to me, as a ports contributor, that this time is only growing, not shrinking, and there's no formal/automated procedures that would help in

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Big Lebowski spankthes...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what is the problem? It seems to me, as a ports contributor, that this time is only growing, not shrinking, and there's no

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread Big Lebowski
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Big Lebowski spankthes...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what is the problem? It seems to me, as a ports

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread Big Lebowski
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:41 AM, John Marino freebsd.cont...@marino.stwrote: On 1/25/2014 00:30, Big Lebowski wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what is the problem? It seems to me, as a ports contributor, that this time is only

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread John Marino
On 1/25/2014 01:03, Big Lebowski wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:41 AM, John Marino freebsd.cont...@marino.stwrote: On 1/25/2014 00:30, Big Lebowski wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to ask about the growing time of reaction to ports PR's - what is the problem? It seems to me, as a ports

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread Big Lebowski
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:22 AM, John Marino freebsd.cont...@marino.stwrote: On 1/25/2014 01:03, Big Lebowski wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:41 AM, John Marino freebsd.cont...@marino.st wrote: On 1/25/2014 00:30, Big Lebowski wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to ask about the growing

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread John Marino
On 1/25/2014 01:36, Big Lebowski wrote: I was hoping to get some discussion revealing how the work is organized around ports PR, perhaps some ideas on improving them and I hoped that people who can make decisions and changes would notice it and consider them, since as they say, the squeeky

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I think you've got me wrong - I am following freebsd-virtualization list very closely, and the matter I've touched here is not my doubt on which technology I should use, but rather a complaint on the state of jails related tools directly leading to the delays in handling of ports related

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I would be willing to help write some scripts to start/stop the VM's (PetiteCloud does a command line that will be better documented and such in the next version or two) On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Big Lebowski spankthes...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Aryeh

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread Gary J. Hayers
On 25 Jan 2014, at 00:47, John Marino freebsd.cont...@marino.st wrote: On 1/25/2014 01:36, Big Lebowski wrote: I was hoping to get some discussion revealing how the work is organized around ports PR, perhaps some ideas on improving them and I hoped that people who can make decisions and

Re: What is the problem with ports PR reaction delays?

2014-01-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 1/24/14, 4:47 PM, John Marino wrote: On 1/25/2014 01:36, Big Lebowski wrote: I was hoping to get some discussion revealing how the work is organized around ports PR, perhaps some ideas on improving them and I hoped that people who can make decisions and changes would notice it and consider

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