Something strange happened today. Only one new committer was proposed yesterday and not the usual two at a time as the last times. Anton Berezin (tobez) is going to mentor Aaron Dalton, who has done a tremendous job on our many perl ports and has now received his usual punishment. Please give him a warm welcome.
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Murphy and disks Murhpy and disks – part 2
Posted by erwin
on October 13, 2005
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Yesterday, I started syncing the data beastie lost in its disk crash of last weekend. I have synced most of the data and just after I started a final full update, another disk died. Sigh. I’ll try to replace that disk in the morning and let’s hope for the best.
Murphy and disks
Posted by erwin
on October 12, 2005
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It must be release time again and Murphy is shakes his ugly head. This weekend, beastie (running the danish half of ftp.freebsd.org) lost a disk. This shouldn’t be a problem in itself, and the hotspare disk took over, so about a day after all was well again. Yesterday, I changed the disk and marked the new disk as the new hotspare. So far so good.
Just after I left the office, beastie rebooted spontaneously. Now the new hotspare disk suddenly turned up as a separate disk and the RAID set was recognized under a new device name and thus could not be found at it’s original location and the boot bailed out. And now Murphy really does his trick. After rectifying this in the RAID BIOS so the new hotspare really was a hotspare and not a disk, beastie booted and all seemed well…until…the RAID set had lost its disklabel and filesystem. Now there’s not much else to do then sync 0.5Tb data.
New port maintainance tools
Posted by erwin
on October 6, 2005
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While the tree is in a slush for the 6.0 release, people start doing some spring cleaning. fenner got the portsurvey back up and worked out some of it’s bugs.
Together with linimon, he did a cleaning of bsd.sites.mk.
edwin created a version checker so maintainers have a simple webpage where their ports, that have a never version available, are listed.
Great tools for maintains to keep their ports up-to-date, so let’s all start using them!
Two more new ports committers
Posted by erwin
on October 1, 2005
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My theory of aggregated port committers seems to hold. Again, two new ports commit bits were granted today. The first goes to Andrej Zverev, who will be mentored by sem, and the second goes to Emanuel Haupt, mentored by novel. Good luck to you all!
Two new ports committer
Posted by erwin
on September 13, 2005
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Somehow, just like accidents, new ports committer proposals never come alone. Today, portmgr unanomously approved two new committers. First, there is Tom McLaughlin, mentored by ahze and mezz, and second we have Marcus Alves Grando, mentored by pav. Wish them luck!