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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 2020 12:53:00 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bugzilla messages about issues related to freebsd-ports, =?iso-8859-1?Q?freebsd-multimedia, _...?=
Message-ID:  <5c74bce0-9772-4b62-ba62-d7712aa42572@unixarea.de>
In-Reply-To: <20200711155638.GM39563@home.opsec.eu>
References:  <20200711112755.GA3908@c720-r342378> <20200711113510.GQ1462@albert.catwhisker.org> <20200711134110.GA4973@c720-r342378>

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On Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:56:38 CEST, Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>=20
wrote:
> Hi!
>=20
>> why as MAINTAINER a full discussion(!) mailing list is used?
>=20
> Having individuals as maintainers can cause delays in
> approving patches and providing updates. So at some time in the
> past, some groups of port maintainers choose to band together
> and have a mailing list -- and changed the MAINTAINER to
> the list, so that each member of the list could update the port,
> if it was needed.
>=20
> This can cause other delays, because no-one might feel responsible
> for a port, so recently, bugmeister@ choose to add (Nobody) to
> some of the group maintainers, so that others do not wait
> for group approval.
>=20
> It's a problem of assigning some feel of 'ownership and responsibility'
> on the one hand and delegation on the other.
>=20
> I take it from your question that you feel this is not a good
> solution...
>=20

Yes. In this case, it would be better to create additional mailing-lists=20
for this collective approach like, example, freebsd-multimedia-maintainer@ =20=

...

Don't you agree?

matthias


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