From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 17:20:28 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 1C50D16A4CE; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:20:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mag.barnet.com.au (mag.barnet.com.au [218.185.88.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E0F43D5C; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:20:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from extmail.barnet.com.au (tim.direct.int.barnet.com.au [10.10.10.2]) by mag.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56D5716E; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:20:21 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <3FFE01D50001668301329644@VIRUSCAN-127.0.0.1> Received: from extmail-auth.barnet.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by extmail.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6FE1E0C; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:20:20 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by extmail-auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DFEC1F22; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:20:20 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E2EBC6A7107; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:20:19 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:20:19 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: ports@FreeBSD.org, python@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20040109012019.GK1665@k7.mavetju> References: <20040109002854.GA1667@k7.mavetju> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: New mailing list: freebsd-python 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: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 01:20:28 -0000 On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:41:29PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > > Can we change the owner of a PR to python now just like the java@ > > and gnome@ PRs and lists? > > Recently when the perl@ mailing list was created, there was discussion > about assigning all the perl ports to it. I objected at that time, > saying that there was a canonical name for "unmaintained" and that > was "ports@FreeBSD.org". I think the consensus was that only the > critical (for some definition of critical) PRs would be so assigned. > > My own research shows me that PRs assigned to kde, gnome, emulation, > and phoenix, tend to rot. The java folks are a little more focussed > and thus tend to be better. There is a reason why I asked in advance :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/