Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:29:12 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org>, "Gary Jennejohn \(Home\)" <gljennjohn@googlemail.com>, ports@freebsd.org, rene@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: www/chromium MAINTAINER, was Re: chromium producing constant hdd access Message-ID: <201101181429.p0IETCB7014652@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:13:40 %2B0100." <AANLkTinCBj-XuHSLwEr0LWoqqBXzCF0WMZ3XJdcs5Tgo@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:13:40 +0100 > Message-id: <AANLkTinCBj-XuHSLwEr0LWoqqBXzCF0WMZ3XJdcs5Tgo@mail.gmail.com> Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > Are you volunteer to maintain ? you have patches that make the latest > stable version of chromium works on FreeBSD? > Have you already started to work on 9 and 10 version. > Have you started the work to send patches upstream? > > The maintainer helped by some of us is doing that, so he is doing the > real MAINTAINER job which is not to keep the most possible ports > "almost" working, but to make sure the ports REALLY works and that the > necessary patches are done are done the right way in order to make > sure upstream can applied them for next release. This job takes time > as chromium is a big monster. > > If you find that process is too slow, feel free to join. send patches etc. The port is not maintained. It was broken within last month & remains Broken. The maintainer fails to either add BROKEN= or BUILD_DEPENDS= 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.
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