--On Friday, April 11, 2008 10:33:26 -0700 Mark Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Paul Schmehl wrote:
If you're really serious that you want OpenNMS ported, then it's time
to make your contribution to FreeBSD. :-) Solicit help from other
FreeBSD users who use/want OpenNMS, and work together to distribute
the load and get the job done. There's plenty of people on this list
who can help you when you run into problems.
I couldn't agree more!
But for the last statement. I have to say I've been underwhelmed with the
amount of maintainership support I have received from this
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) list. Perhaps it's just me, I know the ports-mgr are also
very busy. Or in other cases the answer is just unknown.
So, as a maintainer I tend to ask google before bugging the list. Is a
dedicated maintainer-support list something discussed before?
I think this *is* the dedicated maintainer-support list. :-)
It's been my experience that most of the questions I ask here are fairly dumb
and easily answered with a little research. Perhaps that's why some are slow
to answer? :-)
I discussed, one time, on this list, updating the porting handbook to more
accurately describe the process, but that too requires some work and a PR, so I
just haven't gotten to it yet. (Which I suspect is everyone's problem.)
I try to help when I can, but I defer to more knowledgeable folks in most
cases. I know that my porting skills have improved greatly since I first
started and *much* of what I've learned has come from other ports. If you want
to know how to do a port, study the existing ports - especially ones that are
fairly complex, because those are *usually* done by very knowledgeable people.
(Mine are all relatively simple, mind you.)
--
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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