From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 22:59:22 2003 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 A756D16A4ED; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from hueymiccailhuitl.mtu.ru (hueytecuilhuitl.mtu.ru [195.34.32.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2300D43FBD; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:59:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sem@ciam.ru) Received: from ciam.ru (ppp128-215.dialup.mtu-net.ru [62.118.128.215]) by hueymiccailhuitl.mtu.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC26B6D4A; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:59:01 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from sem@ciam.ru) Message-ID: <3FCD89B7.1060600@ciam.ru> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 09:59:03 +0300 From: Sergey Matveychuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Clement Laforet References: <20031202130020.GA34672@sativa.0x45.org> <20031202153210.250e5ac7.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> <20031202183931.GU27144@toxic.magnesium.net> <20031202212027.4af0f412.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> In-Reply-To: <20031202212027.4af0f412.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: vinc@freebsd-fr.org cc: Adam Weinberger Subject: Re: Want to create/maintain a port 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: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 06:59:22 -0000 Clement Laforet wrote: >>>2. don't be scared to take over maintainership even if you don't >>>modify the port >> >>I'd be careful with that. There's a whole lot of maintainers who >>don't. Maintainership is a responsibility, not just a title. > > > You're right... but it quite hard to evaluate how involved a contributor > is. We should encourage people to do "worthless" works first(like > cleaning orphaned port) before assuming maintainership/submitting new ports. > OTOH, we have maintainers who don't drop their maintainership when they > can't find time/motivation to assume it. Don't forget how long to wait for maintainer timeout. So if he wants to take a port just for title, it'll be better to have no maintainer there. 2Vincent: Take a port if you really ready work with it. Remember, users want port to be worked, bugfixed, patched etc. without regard to your problems and free time. So if you take a port you take a responsibility for it. Be ready to sacrifice. --- Sem.