Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:20:59 +0200 From: Anders Nordby <anders@FreeBSD.org> To: Bjoern Koenig <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about the idleness of some port maintainers Message-ID: <20050602072059.GA74957@totem.fix.no> In-Reply-To: <429EAEDC.2020207@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <429EAEDC.2020207@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Hi, On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:01:48AM +0200, Bjoern Koenig wrote: > isn't there a emergency plan in case of unreachable port maintainers? The porters handbook mentions this explicitly, go read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-maintainer.html. > For example: print/acroread7 is broken for more than two weeks, there is > a good patch in the PR database and nobody does anything; just waiting > for the maintainer which didn't respond to emails for a month. This port is special, there has been different opinions about what and how to deal with it. If it is PR ports/81233 you are thinking about, pav asked the maintainer on may 19. So if he did not get any feedback, he should be free to commit the patch today actually. > This is not an individual case. I noticed this idleness with other port > maintainers too. I know that most people are very busy in their real > life and FreeBSD is just a secondary concern, but on the other hand this > makes ports very inflexible. I disagree. Popular ports usually get dealt with in a rather fast manner. But it depends on whether people actually submit good patches, or expect others to do it. > What do you think about explicit guide lines to let people with commit > privileges override the maintainer's prerogative of approving port > updates. Such guide lines might say that critical or unbreaking patches > are allowed to be commited after one or two weeks or even earlier if the > maintainer didn't respond to previous invocations. I saw also minor > addenda to certain ports in the PR database which are very useful but > waste away due to unreachable maintainers. Please, do read the guidelines that are already there. Cheers, -- Anders.
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