nudge: please commit updates to pcb and ng-spice for subsequent gEDA port

[Orville Bennett]

On Jan 31, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Nicolas Godbout wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As suggested in the MacPorts guide, I take the liberty to nudge  
> committers on the dev list to process updates for the following  
> ports following a 72 hour grace period:
>
> port pcb : ticket #18172, submitted four days ago.
> has been assigned to the listed maintainer, but is more than likely  
> abandoned.  The current port version dates from almost four years ago.
>
> While you're at it, you can process
> port ng-spice: ticket #18208, submitted only two days ago, but still  
> has not been assigned at all.  This is a 'nomaintainer' port and  
> could be processed immediately by any maintainer.
>
> Sorry for leaning on the side of impatience, but I'm trying to  
> complete a list of ports for the whole gEDA (GPL's Electronic Design  
> Automation) suite and that's a total of about fifteen ports.  Having  
> up-to-date ports for present portions of that suite would be really  
> helpful.
>
> Actually, I'd like to have your opinion on this: the core gEDA  
> package consists of 10 ports that I already have working on my local  
> repository.  Should I:
> 1) open 10 tickets, one for each port submission?
> 2) open 1 ticket with all port files and patches in a compressed file?
> 3) apply first as a port maintainer so that I can also commit all  
> these new packages?
Having recently gone through a similar process and having done steps  
1, 2 and 3, I'd say go with 3. Stuff goes faster that way :-)

>
>
> Your feedback on this would be appreciated.
>
> With my salutations,
>
> Nicolas.
>
>
>       
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