Re: Job spec of a port maintainer

On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:00:12 +0100 Daniel Silverstone wrote:

> To: netsurf-dev@netsurf-browser.org
> Subject: Re: Job spec of a port maintainer
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 18:31:36 +0100, Sprow wrote:
>> Is there a definition somewhere of what's involved?
>
> As this is open-source/free-software work there's rarely anything written
> down.
>
> My understanding of a port maintainer (for us at least) would be someone
> who
> can commit to being around on-channel at least a bit; is competent in the
> use
> of, and development of, applications on their target system, can respond
> in a
> timely fashion to tickets, ideally within a few days even if only to say
> thanks, I need to think about this; and will jump on front-end failures
> evident
> in the CI system within a day or two at most.
>
> Ideally they'd also be interested in learning about and assisting with
> the core
> of the NetSurf codebase, and also our libraries; since all ports rely on
> those
> to a greater or lesser extent.
>
>> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2266
>> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2170
>> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2336
>> http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis/view.php?id=2289
>
> Thank you. Hopefully Dave Higton may get to these, he has been
> invaluable recently :-)

I think you exaggerate my usefulness, but thank you all the same :-)

>> but they presumably need reviewing. I know from a day job in engineering
>> not
>> to review my own code!

I'll try to look at them tonight.

Dave

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