Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:48:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing ports maintainers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004232246030.331-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <8e07sr$1s5u$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On 24 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> 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. OK, I already posted that I just wanted more discussion on it, but if you must get personal, I was in the VA hospital in Baltimore MD just then, having stomach surgery. I'm not gonna apologize for that, and I *do* maintain xpdf (unless others break it). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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