From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 3 01:47:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C119F16A4CE for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 01:47:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.droso.net [193.162.142.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B6343D48 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 01:47:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id ED0772282C; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 10:47:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 10:47:06 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing To: ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040103094706.GS19391@droso.net> Mail-Followup-To: ports@freebsd.org References: <3FF4EBF6.90300@ciam.ru> <20040102140928.GB45272@voodoo.oberon.net> <20040102102557.J91767@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YIwHDYD8sUXtBKvt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040102102557.J91767@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 5.1-CURRENT Subject: Re: Lost maintainers X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 09:47:09 -0000 --YIwHDYD8sUXtBKvt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:33:37AM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: >=20 > IMHO, even 2-3 months is too long -- this is almost a complete release > cycle (considering that releases are every 3-4 months and the ports tree > is frozen for 2-4 weeks prior to release.) >=20 > This can cause important updates (features, version bumps, security fixes) > to miss two consecutive releases and users (especially those installing > from packages) get irked by this a lot. >=20 > I'm not suggesting that we drop maintainership after say 1 month, but I > think there should be some understanding between ports committers such > that good, well-formed patches from the user community be committed even > without maintainer's blessing, after a set period of maintainer > unresponsiveness. >=20 There is such an understanding. 3 weeks is considered "approval by timeout" for committing pathces. For security related issues, it is up to the committers discretion. But reassigning maintainership is a whole different issues than single patches. --=20 _._ _,-'""`-._ Erwin Lansing (,-.`._,'( |\`-/| erwin@lansing.dk http://droso.org `-.-' \ )-`( , o o) erwin@FreeBSD.org -bf- `- \`_`"'- --YIwHDYD8sUXtBKvt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/9o+aqy9aWxUlaZARAhfmAKDRgUKEAnWEvQF1f9F+EbaOZz8RuwCgvKse N8kfxM3ln4ZTtT6vuLB/9ZE= =iu/I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YIwHDYD8sUXtBKvt--