Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:01:48 +0200 From: Bjoern Koenig <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: about the idleness of some port maintainers Message-ID: <429EAEDC.2020207@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Hello, isn't there a emergency plan in case of unreachable port maintainers? For example: print/acroread7 is broken for more than two weeks, there is a good patch in the PR database and nobody does anything; just waiting for the maintainer which didn't respond to emails for a month. This is not an individual case. I noticed this idleness with other port maintainers too. I know that most people are very busy in their real life and FreeBSD is just a secondary concern, but on the other hand this makes ports very inflexible. What do you think about explicit guide lines to let people with commit privileges override the maintainer's prerogative of approving port updates. Such guide lines might say that critical or unbreaking patches are allowed to be commited after one or two weeks or even earlier if the maintainer didn't respond to previous invocations. I saw also minor addenda to certain ports in the PR database which are very useful but waste away due to unreachable maintainers. Regards Björn
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