From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 08:02:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org 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 1143A16A41C; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 08:02:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.efacilitas.de (efacilitas.de [213.133.110.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C5443D1D; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 08:02:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from eurystheus.local (port-212-202-39-149.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.39.149]) by mail.efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE834123960; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:00:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CAC12B0F4; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:00:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eurystheus.local ([192.168.1.67]) by localhost (eurystheus.locaL [192.168.1.67]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00948-06; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:00:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.67] (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA2612B033; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:00:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <429EBC9E.8070900@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:00:30 +0200 From: Bjoern Koenig User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anders Nordby References: <429EAEDC.2020207@cs.tu-berlin.de> <20050602072059.GA74957@totem.fix.no> In-Reply-To: <20050602072059.GA74957@totem.fix.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: about the idleness of some port maintainers X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:02:04 -0000 Anders Nordby wrote: > This port [(print/acroread7)] is special, Why is it special? > there has been different opinions about what and > how to deal with it. That's why I asked for more concrete guide lines than the porter's handbook covers. It is a kind of contradiction if you say that that there are well defined policies and on the other hand there is enough space to have opinions about how to deal with a port. > If it is PR ports/81233 you are thinking about, pav asked the maintainer > on may 19. So if he did not get any feedback, he should be free to > commit the patch today actually. What happens if pav commits the patch now and let's say in one week Adobe offers a new revision of Acrobat Reader and somebody sends an update? Shall we wait two weeks again until somebody notices that the maintainer still does not answer? The waiting for the timeout to commit ports/81233 is already the second two-week timeout in series. Björn