On 02/02/10 11:57, Bernd Eggink wrote:
Am 02.02.2010 09:56, schrieb Victor Martinez:
On 02/02/10 09:34, Bernd Eggink wrote:
I always use an own collection, containing all the ports I have changed or want to keep up-to-date. I never use contrib or any of the individual collections directly, as they are frequently out of date. This even regards to some ports from opt.
that's the way to go to keep personal repositories and contrib out of date, filling bugs keep maintainers notified if they didn't see an update, or an email to the maintainer talking about the update/request/problem will help to keep an updated ports tree.
The simple reason is, I'm in the habit of keeping my system up to date on a daily basis (which is a bit extreme, I know), but I don't expect others to be that fast. Apart from that, I really don't feel like sending dozens of emails to individual maintainers whose ports are several versions behind. I may be wrong, but to me this indicates that they have lost interest.
really I can understand that for personal repositories, but not for contrib. If we (maintainers, developers, users, ...) don't keep collections up to date, with the ways which are provided (malining lists, irc, flyspray or directly sending an email to the maintainer) then things will be hard to fix. I manage some contrib ports and 2 personal collections, and the number of mails/bugs from them are quite low. If we don't improve the ports tree, then ports will be outdated. The point is, is it better to keep a personal way to fix things or let other users and maintainers know about them.
Bernd
regards. -- Learning bit by bit. Víctor Martínez