Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:42:08 +0400
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: please commit 124993 for cfengine-2.2.7
Message-ID:  <05440975@bs1.sp34.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20080701192524.GA13558@atarininja.org> (Wesley Shields's message of "Tue\, 1 Jul 2008 15\:25\:24 -0400")
References:  <A6B7A2BF-FD6C-4802-9851-2346ED6E4391@netconsonance.com> <20080701192524.GA13558@atarininja.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:25:24 -0400 Wesley Shields wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:48:42AM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> > cfengine hasn't had any updates for over a year now, as the maintainer  
> > is AWOL.    I keep submitting patches but nobody commits them.
> > 
> > The last update to 124993 contains a clean single patch from the  
> > current ports tree to 2.2.7.   Can someone please commit this?
> > 
> >     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=124993

> I will take this one and get it addressed.  The PR you are quoting has
> not been around long enough for a maintainer timeout, but the other PR
> you reference[1] has.  I suspect this is not an acceptable condition to
> override the maintainer.

Why is it not acceptable to override a maintainer? This port is not an
infrastructure port, the maintainer is way long unresponsive. I see
only one show-stopper: there is no patch (or PR) to change the
maintainer.

> For now I will put it in my name and address
> it once I know the appropriate course of action (wait for maintainer
> timeout or if the old timeout applies to this one as well).


WBR
-- 
Boris Samorodov (bsam)
Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?05440975>