Helping new ports and fixes into MacPorts

[Steve Purcell]

On 15 Mar 2007, at 20:52, Kevin Ballard wrote:

> The old process was, create a ticket, email this list or the dev  
> list. Someone would deal with it. Recently we added a milestone New  
> Ports. There's no official documentation to this nature, but I  
> would posit that an appropriate new process is create a ticket,  
> make sure it's set to the milestone New Ports. Periodically other  
> committers and I should go through the New Ports milestone and  
> check the submissions, committing Portfiles if they're acceptable.
>
> That said, if you have an update to a port, assign it to the  
> Available Ports milestone and email this list. There are far too  
> many tickets open against portfiles that will eventually end up in  
> Available Ports for us to really monitor it for new tickets.
>

Great, that clears things up wonderfully.  Perhaps you could add this  
brief guidance to the "committer guidelines" wiki page, which is  
probably a first stop for many new contributors.


>> Also, I believe I fixed a defect in a further ticket, but have no  
>> means of reassigning that ticket to the maintainer of the port in  
>> question (mww):
>>
>>   http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/9043
>
> Looks like pipping reassigned it for you, though I would recommend  
> emailing mww about it directly - Trac currently isn't sending any  
> emails except to people in the CC field, so if he's not reading  
> this thread he doesn't know the ticket has a fix.
>
> Oh, and in the future you can simply attach your diff as a file  
> attachment rather than embedding it in text.
>

Super, thanks.  I was surprised not to receive emails about the  
changes to the ticket, so I'll go ahead and CC myself.

Thanks again for the guidance,

-Steve


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