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Date:      Sun, 26 Aug 2012 15:03:17 -0400
From:      Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        perl@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/171084: [PATCH] shells/p5-Shell-Perl: update to 0.0022
Message-ID:  <503A72F5.6060606@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <503A70A7.30903@FreeBSD.org>
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On 08/26/12 14:53, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 08/26/2012 11:50, Steve Wills wrote:
>> On 08/26/12 14:47, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> Steve,
>>>
>>> Why do we have this sudden flood of PRs?
>>>
>>
>> I'm bored and I got a local portscout instance working, so it's easier
>> for me to see what's out of date.
> 
> Ok .... but is there a way for you to relieve your boredom without
> punishing us? :)  Especially if you're going to end up taking the PR
> anyway?
> 
> 

My apologies for the flood of email.

Allow me to explain a little. You may have noticed lately that sunpoet@
does a fine job keeping the p5- ports that are maintained by perl@ up to
date. I felt it was a shame that the ones that aren't maintained by
perl@ weren't getting the same treatment. So I thought I'd take a look
at them (via portscout) and see if I could get them updated.

The PRs are just a fact of life as far as getting the changes approved
by the maintainers. The flood of email to perl@ is an unfortunate side
effect of the fact that these auto assigner doesn't recognize that it
could assign these to me because the "p5- -> perl@" rule takes
precedence over the "submitters is committer" rule. This is something
I'm trying to work on. (I've already fixed one bug in the auto assigner
recently and am currently trying to get that tested, approved and put in
place. Once that's done, I'll try to get this bug fixed as well.)

Also, you may have noticed that so far in this process several
maintainers who's email address no longer works have been reset by
portmgr@. Hopefully that along with the improvements to the auto
assigner will at least slightly reduce the issue in the future.

Steve



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