From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 14:59:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D1616A46A; Fri, 12 May 2006 14:59:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A408C43D46; Fri, 12 May 2006 14:59:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12705D0B; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:59:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AKckzEL8OvgE; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:59:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-160-235-217.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.235.217]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCB55C44; Fri, 12 May 2006 10:59:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4464A2BF.6060108@mac.com> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:59:11 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Boris Samorodov References: <20060509004620.3a8ed7a1@serene.no-ip.org> <20060512035553.GB27663@soaustin.net> <51637568@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <44645A12.3040207@FreeBSD.org> <69557175@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <20060512105350.F3C91B81E@shodan.nognu.de> <05233607@srv.sem.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <05233607@srv.sem.ipt.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Sergey Matveychuk Subject: Re: Do we need a few more ports reviewers/committers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:59:16 -0000 Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2006 12:53:50 +0200 Frank Steinborn wrote: > >> If you *are* the maintainer of the port use [maintainer update], >> otherwise you should consider sending your patch to the maintainer >> directly or use at least [change-request]. >> > > The phrase "If you are volunteering to maintain the port, be sure to > put [maintainer update] at the beginning of your synopsis line and set > the ``Class'' of your PR to maintainer-update." seems to tell quite > the opposite. > Note that this is following the context set in the previous paragraph, which was: "If the port is unmaintained, and you are actively using it yourself, please consider volunteering to become its maintainer." If you wish to become the maintainer of a port that is being maintained by nobody, aka ports@freebsd.org, using maintainer-update makes sense. If the port already has a maintainer, and you're not that person, using update or change-request seems more appropriate, unless you have coordinated the hand-off of maintainership already with the former maintainer and/or portmgr@. Other people feel that you should not set the Class to maintainer-update until after the PR which assigns the maintainership to you has been committed. -- -Chuck PS: For example, see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96998