From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 18 17:45:09 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 31F1F16A422 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:45:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Received: from mxsf29.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf29.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B64343D58 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:45:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@chrismaness.com) Received: from mxip31a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip31a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.246]) by mxsf29.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k2IHixh4029393 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:44:59 -0500 Received: from 71-83-198-191.dhcp.rvsd.ca.charter.com (HELO [71.83.198.191]) ([71.83.198.191]) by mxip31a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 18 Mar 2006 12:44:59 -0500 Message-ID: <441C4718.2000206@chrismaness.com> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 09:44:56 -0800 From: Chris Maness User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: <441A159D.7010406@chrismaness.com> <20060317020920.GB19635@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20060317020920.GB19635@soaustin.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Maintainer? 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: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:45:09 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: > 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 ;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 > Thanks for the response, it looks like the port maintainer finally fixed the problem though he never returned my e-mail. Another user was also trying to get in touch, but no response. In the future, who do you notify if a maintainer seems to be unresponsive?