Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:09:20 -0600 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Maintainer? Message-ID: <20060317020920.GB19635@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <441A159D.7010406@chrismaness.com> References: <441A159D.7010406@chrismaness.com>
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:49:17PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: > How does a person go about finding out if a port is being maintained? The canonical answer is cd <portname>;make maintainer but I only include that for completeness since you probably already know that. To find out if it is being _actively_ maintained, you can pull up the GNATS search page, enter the category/portname, and click 'closed reports too'. Also, checking the CVS web page will reveal information. portsmon only keeps track of current PRs and ignores closed ones but you can at least see if there is a backlog. portsmon's algorithm for assigning PR to portname is far better than using the GNATS search, which depends on submitters correctly inserting the category/portname into the Synopsis. > or if the maintainer seems to be asleep at the wheel, what is the most > tactful way to wake him up? I have tried e-mailing the maintainer with > no results. The correct thing to do is this case is to email portmgr@FreeBSD.org off-list and it's our duty to find out what's going on. mcl
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