From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 13:54:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2127D106564A; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32B88FC1B; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p5B22EB8A.dip.t-dialin.net [91.34.235.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p0IDs576080399; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:07 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p0IDru1J019738; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:53:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p0IDsNZd013552; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:54:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201101181354.p0IDsNZd013552@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Thomas Abthorpe From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:21:19 EST." <20110118132119.GA34647@rex.goodking.ca> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:54:23 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Mark Linimon , Chad Perrin , "Gary Jennejohn \(Home\)" , rene@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: www/chromium MAINTAINER, was Re: chromium producing constant hdd access 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: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:54:19 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: Thomas Abthorpe > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:21:19 -0500 > Message-id: <20110118132119.GA34647@rex.goodking.ca> Thomas Abthorpe wrote: > > --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 01:13:19PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, > > Reference: > > > From: Mark Linimon =20 > > > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:48:50 +0000=20 > > > Message-id: <20110118004850.GB17292@lonesome.com>=20 > >=20 > > Mark Linimon wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > rene@ has ignored request to roll back. If rene@ resigns, > > > > MAINTAINER would revert to ports@freebsd.org so others could fix > > > > FreeBSD's current ports/www/chromium > > >=20 > > > Because of the legal questions surrounding chromium, > >=20 > > I know nothing of that. Just that a month ago it compiled, now it won't. > >=20 > > > portmgr will ensure > > > that it does not revert to ports@ :-) > > > mcl > >=20 > > So how about: > > Revert to something that will compile, with no MAINTAINER. > > Or delete port ? > > A port that=20 > > - wont build,=20 > > - the maintainer won't fix,=20 > > - has security issues,=20 > > - is legaly problematic > > - ports@ is scared of inheriting > > - that we can't fix by adding a _DEPENDS etc > > seems a waste of time & name space, > >=20 > > Cheers, > > Julian > > > I suggest you subscribe to > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chromium, and make > make your intentions known about what you can do to assist in getting a > more current version of Chromium tested, built and updated in ports. > > Porting a browser as complex as Chromium is a lot of work, takes a lot > of time, and requires a lot of attention to detail. > > A small group of us has been assisting Rene for a while now, and we have > decided it is now time to grow a FreeBSD Chromium Community. Within > this community we are hoping to find testers, coders, helpers, coders, > people with a general interest in Chromium, and did I mention coders? > > So please subscribe, make your inquiries, and as people come on board, > we will be able to do more to spread the word about Chromium for > FreeBSD. > > Thomas A MAINTAINER who does not maintain is not a maintainer. Makefile broke in the last month MAINTAINER rene@ should add a BUILD_DEPENDS or whatever, else resign & let someone else eg You Thomas become MAINTAINER Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, or HTML or base 64. Avoid top posting, it cripples itemised cumulative responses.