Panther tickets

[Scott Haneda]

On May 20, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> The number of open tickets does affect one's ability to go through  
> the list
> of old, open tickets looking for things to fix.  Granted, you can look
> (usually) in the summary, or opening the ticket to see in the  
> description,
> that it is against 10.3 and move on, but it's still just one more  
> thing to
> deal with.


I probably can not get up to seed enough to assist in the core of  
Ports.  I was once told it is all just tcl code, if that is the case,  
there may be a chance I could contribute.  The mention of ifdefs makes  
me think it is not in fact just tcl.

Can I take a role in the ticketing system?  How would I go about  
proving myself to be capable of adding support in the area of the bug  
tracker?

I have extra machines, I can at the very least, take the new ports,  
test if they build, and give them a thumbs up or down in regards to if  
they build out or not.

I think I grasp the general idea of how a port file works well enough  
to see blatant bugs in a portfile, at least, new ones.  Older ones,  
seem to have a good system in place where dialogue is hashed out to  
get them working correctly.

I can make the time to help, if my offer is warranted or needed.  I  
would love to give back something for all the hand holding I received  
originally on the users list when I first was getting my feet wet.

For what it is worth, I would officially drop 10.3 support. It is  
getting to the point where the hardware that runs 10.3 will be slower  
than the next iPhone :)  Further, ports very nature is a technical  
one.  Most of the ports are command line tools.  Yes, there are those  
that are window managed, those would probably run terribly on 10.3  
hardware as well.

If the one of the very core natures of ports is for an "advanced" use,  
it makes sense that people would want to take advantage of current  
compilers, and current features of the most modern OS there is.  Not  
to say that 10.3 can not be used with ports, I am sure versions will  
still be downloadable, but I do not feel any of the already limited  
resources should be put towards 10.3.
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