Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 06:00:43 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm/evilwm Makefile ports/x11-wm/openbox Message-ID: <20030522130043.GA25556@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030522062336.O48018@blues.jpj.net> References: <200305212345.h4LNjSNf068849@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030522101602.GA32104@huckfinn.arved.de> <20030522062336.O48018@blues.jpj.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:10:06AM -0400, Trevor Johnson wrote: > Tilman Linneweh wrote: > > > If you don't have the time to handle PRs for 6 months (evilwm) and 8 months > > (openbox), you should consider removing yourself from MAINTAINER. > > I think of it the opposite way--that dumping a port with open PRs onto > someone else is not a good thing. I have been mulling over dropping some > other ports, but I am still interested in these two. > > I am humbled to realize that you believe ports@freebsd.org does better > maintenance than I, and are willing to say so in public. There must be > many others who hold the same opinion of me, but have kept quiet. Useful ports without a maintainer tend to find a new one fairly quickly. Inactive maintainers who ignore maintenance of the port for nearly a year but don't let anyone else step in to fix things aren't good for FreeBSD. Kris P.S. Just a reminder that you are listed as maintainer of over a dozen ports that fail to build for various reasons. I hope you'll find the time to look at them soon. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+zMn6Wry0BWjoQKURAnUuAKDSlw5V384xBUuvt7i8yZrUje++zQCgncue 1f2gPe8d1GoQztBo+HI3QTs= =MnrV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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