From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 23 17:36: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9FC537B82F for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 17:36:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA07908; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:36:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:36:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Doug Barton Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing ports maintainers In-Reply-To: <390393C3.71FDEAC@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > > If this is being done because Kris can't get a response when he wants > > changes, and he doesn't want to wait, I think that possibly he's doing > > folks a disservice, because I think some mainatainer is probably better > > than none at all, and for the majority of what he's doing, that's going to > > be the ultimate effect. > > There are two benefits I can see for removing an inactive maintainer. > One, it gives people who need information or would like to suggest > improvements a channel that is more likely to be responsive than an > inactive maintainer. The other is that it will encourage someone who > takes an interest in a port to step forward and volunteer to maintain > it. OK. I wanted to see it get a bit more open discussion. I won't object any more to it. > > Doug > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message