Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:15:50 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws> To: "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, eclipse@freebsd.org, "John Marino" <freebsd.contact@marino.st>, marino@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD Ports Management Team <portmgr@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Time to dissolve eclipse@ team? Others want to maintain / team concept in general Message-ID: <op.xepn0oubkndu52@ronaldradial.radialsg.local> In-Reply-To: <53537775.5080607@marino.st> References: <53537775.5080607@marino.st>
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On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:29:57 +0200, John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> wrote: > For several months while scanning our numerous PRs, I've noticed people > complaining Eclipse was woefully out of 9 month ago. There have been > several PRs and they aren't even getting answered. > > I see a new one on 15 April, requesting maintainership also with > offering patches to update to the latest version. > > As I understand it, the eclipse@ team is down to a single person, and I > don't think the team concept should be used with less than 3 people. > > What's I'd like to see happen: > > 1) Portmgr establish minimum requirements for a "team". Nobody is going > to touch a PR owned by a team, even if it has timed out for months. I > recommend that a team must consist of at least 3 people, and if this > requirement cannot be maintained then the team must be dissolved. > > 2) the eclipse team should be dissolved unless more people join it > immediately. The ports owned by eclipse should be reassigned to either > the current member of eclipse or ports@ > > 3) seriously consider given eclipse maintainership to Jimmy Kelly if the > current maintainers don't have enough time anymore. > > Eclipse is an important set of ports and having such an old version > doesn't look for ports, so it could be a Public Relations issue as well. > > All that said, maybe the eclipse@ team has plans, but they certainly > haven't been communicated. None of the last 5 PRs going back July 2013 > have been responded to. > > Thanks, > John At least reward people who make a PR with a patch for a new version of Eclipse with a port. People who actually do the work are the ones who make open source work. Just make an eclipse43 port. I understand there is a eclipse-plugin-framework which must work with the eclipse port, but more exposure to new ports besides a patch on the mailinglist would be great. Regards, Ronald.
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