From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 13:05:57 2005 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 DFE2F16A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:05:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ciam.ru (mail.ciam.ru [213.147.57.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A2643D39 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:05:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sem@FreeBSD.org) Received: from msd-mtu.mbrd.ru ([195.34.35.77] helo=[172.16.4.9]) by mail.ciam.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.x) id 1D674U-0003I5-DG; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:05:54 +0300 Message-ID: <422468B1.2060002@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:05:53 +0300 From: Sergey Matveychuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Landgren References: <4224467B.7040407@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: <4224467B.7040407@landgren.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to do about a "lost" PR? 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: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:05:58 -0000 David Landgren wrote: > I sent a polite message to the e-mail address of the maintainer in early > January asking if they had any idea on when my patch could be folded in, > whilst acknowledging that they may have a Life and may not have the time > to respond in a timely manner. I never heard anything back. I think you should do it more often. One email in week is OK. Well, it drives some committers crazy but I think it's a good practice anyway. > > It's now March, and the PR is still open. What does one do in a case > like this? May I become a committer for this port? Not committer, but maintainer. -- Sem.