From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 14:28:58 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 64AD4106564A; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:28:58 +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 C2B308FC16; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:28:57 +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 p0IESsTw080822; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:28:56 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 p0IESjDt019892; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:28:45 +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 p0IETCB7014652; Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:29:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201101181429.p0IETCB7014652@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Baptiste Daroussin 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 15:13:40 +0100." Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:29:12 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: Chad Perrin , Thomas Abthorpe , "Gary Jennejohn \(Home\)" , ports@freebsd.org, rene@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon 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 14:28:58 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: Baptiste Daroussin > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:13:40 +0100 > Message-id: 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.