Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:31:22 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/rdesktop pkg-plist Message-ID: <20050310223122.GI48850@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0503101539130.9147-100000@pancho> References: <20050310191906.GG48850@toxic.magnesium.net> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0503101539130.9147-100000@pancho>
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>> (03.10.2005 @ 1645 PST): Mark Linimon said, in 1.4K: << > The whole idea of instituting the 2-week period for timeouts was to > state 'here is a time period after which you don't get to claim that > your toes were stepped on'. This does _not_ mean that a courtesy > email to the maintainer is not called for in either case. > > Adding the comment 'maintainer timeout' or 'no response from > maintainer' to these commits would have made clear what was happening. > portmgr@ is interested in tracking maintainer timeouts. > > The FreeBSD development model only really works if people cooperate. > To the extent that we have to have 'rules' to enforce common sense, > I'll agree with you that it's too bad. But in this case the intention > is not to create 'beauracracy', it's to prevent commit wars and > people feeling that they are wasting their time by trying to send > PRs which then later get ignored. > > And yes, there have been cases in the past where IMHO maintainers > have given up after having their attempts to fix things overruled or > ignored. We need all the (active) maintainers we can get, so this > is A Bad Thing. >> end of "Re: cvs commit: ports/net/rdesktop pkg-plist" from Mark Linimon << I really don't intend to wait two weeks for approval to keep a pkg-plist in alphabetical order. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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