RE: Job spec of a port maintainer

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:31:36 +0100 Sprow wrote:

> Hi,
> In a couple of recent posts to the netsurf-users mailing list, and notes
> from
> ticket master Vincent, it's been noted there's no RISC OS maintainer at
> present in particular.
>
> Is there a definition somewhere of what's involved?
>
> For example: If it's responding to port specific tickets within ~2 weeks
> and
> maybe fixing 1 bug-a-month then that's probably background enough for one
> person to handle. If it involves writing lots of new code then that
> clearly
> needs a much bigger commitment. ie. it's maintenance in the car sense of
> "keeping something running that already runs".
>
> After some invaluable hand holding from Rob Kendrick (I failed to locate
> the
> instructions to set up a VM to build for RISC OS) I went ahead and wrote
> patches for
>
> 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
>
> but they presumably need reviewing. I know from a day job in engineering
> not
> to review my own code!

The RISC OS specific tasks don't seem all that onerous at the moment,
although perhaps I haven't been looking hard enough. But if two of us
contribute, it should be even better!

Dave

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