Re: work in pause?

[Mandacarú Cascavel <mancasc%yahoo.com.br@localhost>]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:42:48 -0500
Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

> 
> Mandacarú Cascavel <mancasc%yahoo.com.br@localhost> writes:
> 
> > May we suspect some packages in pkgsrc-wip are in pause, not in
> > progress? For example: sxemacs, xombrero.
> 
> Without looking, this is quite likely.
> 
> The nature of pkgsrc-wip is that commit access is handed out freely, and
> we are more or less unconcerned with the state of packages.  People
> improve them when they care, and otherwise they sit.  This is better
> than them not existing, because the next person has a base to start
> from.
> 
> You can examine the git logs to see when those packages were last changed.
> 
> You should feel free to jump in and help.  Send an ssh key to
> wiz%netbsd.org@localhost with a request for commit access.

Unhappily I'm a simple NetBSD end user, but I'll try to learn
a bit more in order to eventually contribute with
something.

Cordial Greetings.



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Mandacarú Cascavel <mancasc%yahoo.com.br@localhost>