Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:40:11 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New port with maintainer ports@FreeBSD.org [was: Question about maintainers] Message-ID: <523C9B2ACAB77CE81DAA31F9@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <1122635572.66245.26.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> References: <C3B81AFDB8A5DFB5AB566CC4@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <42E81050.7090305@cs.tu-berlin.de> <66A226C3557B48ED535E3FED@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20050727230523.GB54954@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20050728154248.GA943@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20050728164111.GA66015@isis.sigpipe.cz> <42E917BA.10406@exit.com> <FACB47A35BF38243FBC04766@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <790a9fff050728142793c7588@mail.gmail.com> <47ECFCB8BE498CEAB57757D7@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <1122588979.97751.1.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <1122634769.42ea0c11751e8@buexe.b-5.de> <1122635572.66245.26.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
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--On Friday, July 29, 2005 13:12:52 +0200 Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>=20 wrote: > Lupe Christoph p=ED=A8e v p=E1 29. 07. 2005 v 12:59 +0200: >> Quoting Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>: >> > Paul Schmehl p=ED=B9e v =E8t 28. 07. 2005 v 16:31 -0500: >> >> > > Thanks, Scot. That's helpful to know. I wasn't aware, for example, >> > > that anyone could submit PRs for a broken port. >> >> > Please don't do that, unless you also submit a fix. >> >> > Because committers are few and usually are not very familiar with the >> > given broken port. Such PRs tend to be left untouched for years and >> > then swept under the carpet too often. >> >> I see such PRs as useful. At least the save effort for people having >> the same problem, pointing them to a known deficiency. And they *might* >> still get fixed. > > In theory, yes. > > In practice, majority of them never see a single followup and all they > serve for is to keep GNATS numbers high. > How about this? Write a script that parses the submit dates. After an agreed upon amount=20 of time with no action (6 months? A year?) the PR gets automatically nuked = and the original submitter gets an email message - Dear John, we're sorry,=20 but nothing was done to correct the problem you submitted in prxxxxx.=20 (Copy of the original PR attached.) If this problem remains unresolved and = needs to be resolved, please resubmit under a new PR. That would at least put the onus on the PR submitter to followup on the=20 original submission, and, I would think, eliminate "non-serious"=20 submissions eventually. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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