Re: git: 2b48bc59c42b - main - ports-mgmt/poudriere-dsh2dsh: added fork of poudriere 3.4.99.20240812

Hello,

Awesome features like those presented in poudriere fork should be included
in main port as development options so people could test it properly.
The problem of a fork is that it will eventualy diverge from main project
and it can get into future problems.

Choosing between poudriere and poudriere-devel is already a difficult
decision to make related to reliability/stability/new features...

This is only a vague opinion on what I feel about a poudriere fork port.
I vote for port OPTIONS giving an oportunity of big testing features A, B,
C, etc.

Cheers,

Matthias Fechner <mfechner@freebsd.org> escreveu (terça, 22/10/2024 à(s)
05:12):

> Am 22.10.2024 um 00:33 schrieb Daniel Engberg:
> > While we do not have any written guidelines about the selection of
> > projects to be added to the tree this seem like a counterproductive
> > move given it's maintained within the FreeBSD umbrella already and
> > also potentially be perceived as poor management. Can you please
> > elaborate about the reasoning of adding this to the tree?
>
> I do not understand why this is a problem.
> The new version bring some signification performance improvements which
> is very helpful to users.
> For me, it drops the compile time of go based ports from 20-40 minutes
> to 2 minutes which is a massive improvement for poudriere.
> And if the developers do not include this modification, this is fine.
> But I think it is only fair to give also the user a change to decide and
> therefor are forks existing.
>
> Using a fork enable us to battle test new features without have an
> effect to stability of the core poudriere.
>
> If the port get many installations that would also give an idea to the
> developers how popular these modifications are and they can be included
> upstream.
>
> Sry, but I do not get the point, why that would be counterproductive, I
> see it exactly the opposite, it will help the poject to better get an
> idea if these modification are requested by the community and if they work.
>
> Gruß
> Matthias
>
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