From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 21:19:16 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 9F38016A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:19:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F62943D45 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:19:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id C6757148D0; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:19:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:19:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: John Norman Durlop In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: timur@gnu.org Subject: Re: net/samba3 port sorely outdated! 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: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:19:16 -0000 > When are you planning to update the net/samba3 port to version 3.0.6, > "maintainer"? While we have a number of problems with maintainers not maintaining their ports properly, this isn't the right approach to fixing the problem. Remember that all ports maintainers are volunteers -- the few people that get paid to work on FreeBSD full- or part-time are working in the source tree, not the ports tree. The better way to solve this problem is to send a PR with a patch to update the port with the latest version that builds on -current. If the maintainer does not respond after two weeks, it's fair game for someone else to commit the PR. If the maintainer does not update a port for more than a few months, maintainership can be assigned to someone else. mcl