From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 23 18:31:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CC437BABC for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 18:31:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA25189 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:31:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA61638 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:26:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Removing ports maintainers Date: 24 Apr 2000 03:26:51 +0200 Message-ID: <8e07sr$1s5u$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm not arguing in any way if the maintainers involved have been active, > inactive, or comatose ... I'm arguing if moving from having a maintainer > that answers only rarely if at all, is really worse than having no > maintainer at all. Yes, it is. If I send in a PR with a bug fix or update and the maintainer is a committer, the PR will be assigned to him. If he's inactive, that PR will go down the drain. The maintainer doesn't handle it, and nobody else will touch it since it's assigned to the maintainer. I distinctly remember being very unhappy about a certain Chuck Robey choking off any updates to the xpdf port for months. If the maintainer is ports@freebsd.org, some random committer is likely to take care of the PR. (Of course it happens occasionally that a PR is still ignored... Could somebody PLEASE take care of #17451?) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message