ansifilter Portfile

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

Ansifilter parses common ANSI codes to remove them or to convert them to another colored text file format (HTML, TeX, LaTeX, RTF, Pango or BBCode)

​http://www.andre-simon.de/doku/ansifilter/en/ansifilter.php

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

Did I forget to add something to the ticket?

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

r152550

Sorry for the delay. In the future, post to the ​Macports Developers mailing list if a submission is stalled.

Can I add openmaintainer to this port?

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

Yes, I sent an email to the mailing list, but it was rejected. The reply told me I had to subscribe first. I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in subscribing to a mailing list, which involves receiving emails I'm not interested in either, to send one singular mail.

A separate email, e.g. new-portfile@… would make sense.

What does adding openmaintainer mean?

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Replying to tessarek@…:

What does adding openmaintainer mean?

​This section of the guide has the best explanation.

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

Thanks for the info. Yes, you can add openmaintainer.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Done in r152735. Thanks!

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to tessarek@…:

Yes, I sent an email to the mailing list, but it was rejected. The reply told me I had to subscribe first. I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in subscribing to a mailing list, which involves receiving emails I'm not interested in either, to send one singular mail.

You can subscribe and then disable mail delivery from the Mailman options page.

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

You can subscribe and then disable mail delivery from the Mailman options page.

Hmm, I'm not sure, if you really understand why I don't want to do this. I created a portfile and opened a ticket, which in turn should have automatically sent a mail to people who process new submissions. But then I should still subscribe to a mailing list to be able to inform people about the new portfile and submission? Nothing personal, but this is idiotic. I'm happy to write one email, but having to send an email, confirm my email, login to the mailman options page, change the delivery settings, and finally send the mail to the list seems a bit much, don't you think? Mailing lists have their purpose and I am subscribed to several in fact, but having to subscribe to fire off one single email is not why mailing lists exist.

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to tessarek@…:

Hmm, I'm not sure, if you really understand why I don't want to do this.

I assumed it was because you don’t want to get email.

I created a portfile and opened a ticket, which in turn should have automatically sent a mail to people who process new submissions. But then I should still subscribe to a mailing list to be able to inform people about the new portfile and submission?

Committers must explicitly subscribe to macports-tickets. Some choose not to do so because it’s relatively high-volume. Unfortunately, the few of us who do subscribe sometimes overlook tickets.

Nothing personal, but this is idiotic.

If you say so.

I'm happy to write one email, but having to send an email, confirm my email, login to the mailman options page, change the delivery settings, and finally send the mail to the list seems a bit much, don't you think?

You only have to do that once.

Mailing lists have their purpose and I am subscribed to several in fact, but having to subscribe to fire off one single email is not why mailing lists exist.

This restriction is in place to mitigate spam.

[tessus (Helmut K. C. Tessarek)]

Replying to larryv@…:

I assumed it was because you don’t want to get email.

It was because I didn't want to jump through hoops for sending one, singular email.

Committers must explicitly subscribe to macports-tickets. Some choose not to do so because it’s relatively high-volume. Unfortunately, the few of us who do subscribe sometimes overlook tickets.

I'm not a comitter. Even for the tmux port I've been maintaining for a few years I do not have commit rights. I know, with svn it's a bit a pain in the neck to grant access permissions to certain project repos (I don't even know, if that's possible). I haven't touched cvs/svn since git came along.

This restriction is in place to mitigate spam.

This I do understand, but there are so many projects that require you to subscribe to mailing lists that I developed an unhealthy hate for such a requirement. Especially, if I don't want to be part of a discussion, but only inform someone of something.