Re: Splitting pkgmgr and portmgr

October 7, 2022 at 1:38 PM, "Tomoaki AOKI" <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:


> 
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:49:23 +0200
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hello everyone,
> >  
> >  It's been a while since the ports management team (portmgr) needed some
> >  modernization and updates. To meet today's requirements, we are taking a first
> >  step: spliting portmgr and pkgmgr.
> >  
> >  While portmgr's charter does not change, the part of the responsibility
> >  regarding the packages management will now be delegated to pkgmgr under the
> >  portmgr umbrella.
> >  
> >  Package management (pkgmgr) team:
> >  - its role is to work on the technical side of the package production:
> >  + building official packages.
> >  + running exp-runs.
> >  + maintaining and upgrading the package build infrastructure.
> >  - This team will be composed of people that are not part of the portmgr team
> >  (no votes for instance) but still will receive the portmgr emails (like
> >  lurkers) in a advisory function. Working on the package build
> > 
> 
> It would be worth considering to contain INDEX build.
> Not all, but some of the causes of broken INDEX also causes package
> builds.
> 
> For these cases, giving the authority of forcibly fix/revert
> offending commit(s) to pkgmgr should greatly help, especially for
> commits just before weekly package build starts.

We cannot list everything, but yes it is considered part of it.

Best regards,
Bapt