Bug 65170

Summary: Porters Handbook is missing information on monitoring port commits
Product: Documentation Reporter: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Mark Linimon <linimon>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: krion
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Craig Rodrigues 2004-04-04 18:50:19 UTC 
Ports committers can get permission to commit changes to a port
without getting prior approval of the port maintainer.  While often
not a problem, there are cases where this lack of coordination with
the port maintainer can lead to problems.  krion@ suggested
that a port maintainer should set up a monitor of commits to a port
by subscribing to freshports.org:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2004-April/011260.html

I would suggest that this information be added to the Porter's Handbook
in Chapter 19:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/changes.html


In addition, Kris suggested to me in private e-mail that a port maintainer 
should look at /usr/ports/CHANGES to understand changes to the ports
Makefiles.  I think that Chapter 19 of the Porter's Handbook should
also be updated with information about /usr/ports/CHANGES and
/usr/ports/UPDATING.
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-04-04 18:54:58 UTC 
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From-To: freebsd-doc->linimon

I seem to be the volunteer-of-the-day with respect to the Porter's Handbook.
Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-05-19 03:23:23 UTC 
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Please see docs/66855 for my proposed text that covers 
these topics.