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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:24:00 +0200
From:      Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jochen Neumeister <joneum@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>, Yuri <yuri@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r474820 - in head/graphics: . diff-pdf
Message-ID:  <20180718082400.5h5jmrd47khgxz2r@atuin.in.mat.cc>
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:14:23AM +0200, Jochen Neumeister wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On 18.07.2018 10:08, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 09:59:50AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >=20
> > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 05:28:03PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> > > > > On 07/17/18 13:59, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > > > > > The PR adds version 0.2.  Any good reason why you silently upda=
ted the
> > > > > > software without asking the maintainer about it?
> > > > >=20
> > > > > Yes, there is a good reason: the version 0.2 is from May 23, 2013=
, and the
> > > > > latest commit is much more recent, only 7 months old.
> > > > That is a reason, a bad one maybe.  Certainly not a good one.  Why =
did
> > > > not you consult with the maintainer before updating the port he cre=
ated?
> > > > How can you be sure he aggres with it?
> > > That is a *bit* over the top.
> > >=20
> > > No sane maintainer will complain if the committer updates the
> > > submitted port to a newer version, as long as functionality isn't
> > > affected.
> > I did not say it was a bad idea to update the submitted port.  I said it
> > was a bad idea to do it without asking the submitter first.
> >=20
> There are committer, they do it regularly without anything happening.

Our documentation is very specific on what things can happen without
asking the maintainer, see [1], changing the version is really not part
of it.  Of course committers update ports regularly, it is their in
their job description, but there is a very limited set of things one can
do without first asking the maintainer.

1: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-maintaine=
r.html
--=20
Mathieu Arnold

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