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<para>Notification of updates to externally maintained |
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<para>Notification of updates to externally maintained |
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software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base |
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software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base |
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system components such as BIND or various GNU |
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system components such as BIND or various GNU |
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utilities).</para> |
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utilities). In ports case there are 2 possibilities: the port |
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has no maitainer (MAINTAINER=ports@freebsd.org) in which case |
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if your PR doesn't contain a patch there are not many chances |
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somebody will stand up and do it) or the port is maintained, |
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in which case either the maintainer already knows about the |
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update and for various reasons (no time, there's a problem in |
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the new version, etc.) he hasn't submitted an update yet or if |
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he doesn't know you should always try first to contact him |
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directly and fill a PR only if you get no timle respose</para> |
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