Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:24:20 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, marino@freebsd.org, Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster Message-ID: <56A8D314.2060701@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <C61EFF7D53F2B5AECDA6B74B@ogg.in.absolight.net> References: <201601261123.u0QBNcvL091258@repo.freebsd.org> <56A80CFF.7070900@FreeBSD.org> <20160127080158.GR87372@droso.dk> <56A88003.5020709@marino.st> <04661B677FE921A27AEB06FE@ogg.in.absolight.net> <56A8CE88.3040702@marino.st> <C61EFF7D53F2B5AECDA6B74B@ogg.in.absolight.net>
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On 1/27/2016 3:14 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > > +--On 27 janvier 2016 15:04:56 +0100 John Marino > <freebsd.contact@marino.st> wrote: > | On 1/27/2016 2:53 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > |> +--On 27 janvier 2016 09:29:55 +0100 John Marino > |> > |> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/rules.html > |> > |> 5. Any disputed change must be backed out pending resolution of the > |> dispute if requested by a maintainer. Security related changes may > |> override a maintainer's wishes at the Security Officer's discretion. > |> > | > | Okay, let's play lawyer then. > | > | "request by a maintainer". > > The ports tree is the responsibility of portmgr, henceforce, the global > maintainer of the ports tree, is portmgr, Bryan said it was a bad idea, > and Erwin asked you to revert it. Both are members of portmgr. Er, that's not what Bryan said. He said there should be a discussion on it. And this definition of "maintainer" has never been mentioned before. Should I reassign all PRs of unmaintained ports in bugzilla to portmgr? according to this definition, yes, that's what should happen. "Be careful what you wish for" comes to mind. > > So, revert it. > What is the forward plan? If you or edwin revert it, I will not start a commit war. I'll respect it and not deprecate again, but demand a decision be taken. This is a principle thing for me.
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