From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 17 19:45:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from radon.gryphonsoft.com (mcut-b-167.resnet.purdue.edu [128.211.209.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1C937B423; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by radon.gryphonsoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9892E18A2; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:41:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:41:06 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Mike Meyer Cc: Ade Lovett , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contacting port maintainers (was Re: ports/20737: audio/cdrdao ...) Message-ID: <20000917214106.B583@radon.gryphonsoft.com> Reply-To: Will Andrews References: <200009171829.LAA33988@freefall.freebsd.org> <14789.24413.963216.907782@guru.mired.org> <20000917192702.K507@FreeBSD.org> <14789.26198.52639.362687@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14789.26198.52639.362687@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:48:22PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:48:22PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Ade Lovett writes: > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:18:37PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Nope. I thought submitting a ports pr would cause that to eventually > > > happen. > > That's not how it works, I'm afraid, except in the case of those > > ports that have a maintainer set to "ports@FreeBSD.org" (ie: no-one) > > > > See http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/port-upgrading.html > > It's not at all clear that that applies to bugs in the port, as > opposed to the port being out of date. In fact, I've gotten pretty > good responses on the pr's for such in the past. Possibly I've been > lucky. > > However, since you didn't say you had done so, I sent a note to the > maintainer of the cdrdao port asking him about this. The only time you don't need to email a maintainer is when they are not maintaining; i.e. have lost their privileges as maintainer. This is why I override many maintainerships - because people don't "maintain" to a reasonable degree. Basically, if they miss something completely for 6 weeks or more, they lost their maintainership privileges for that particular change. I'll just say I'll never complain if people override *my* maintainer on such instances. You shouldn't either. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB++++$ P+ L- E--- W+ N-- !o ?K w--- O- M+ V- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+++ D+ G++ e>++++ h! r- y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message