Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:32:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> To: Nakata Maho <chat95@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp> Cc: edwin@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/astro/celestia Makefileports/astro/celestia/files patch-src::celestia::celestiacore.cpp Message-ID: <20030901203125.N36109@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <20030902.090822.115963958.chat95@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp> References: <200308310358.h7V3wrKJ003517@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030902.090822.115963958.chat95@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp>
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Nakata Maho wrote: > > There is no "maintainer timeout" for changes such as this which were never > > proposed to the maintainer. Also, these changes do not match your > > description of them. > > IMHO I think Edwin's statement of `maintainer timeout' is correct. > You are the maintainer of celestia, however, this PR was submitted > Mon Dec 09 12:20:01 PST 2002 about 10 month old, almost a year before. > This is *TOO* old PR, absolutely. > > I don't like such sad situation. > > I (there's no compulsion, though) think such attitude for a port > should be regarded as `drop maintainership'. > > I am a quite new committer who makes many pointy hats, > and lack of skills and knowledges, however, many people helped > me a lot. Namely there are some ports which I cannot fix by myself, > many people gave me suggestions and even enhancements > (thanks for everyone). > > So if you have some problems (lack of maintaining time or skill), > you should drop maintainership to ports@FreeBSD.org, > but still you have a right to do some enhancement or modification > whenever you want. > > I don't want to see to set some rules, like `PR outdated for 3 month > any committers can fix' since freedom is one of the good thing for FreeBSD. The changes were not in the PR. I never saw them until they were committed. -- Trevor Johnson
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