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Date:      Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:00:34 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/cad/admesh Makefile
Message-ID:  <20110814030033.GA80255@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110813172040.GC38385@hades.panopticon>
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On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 09:20:40PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> * Matthias Andree (mandree@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> > Possibly we should always mark ports for removal for three months after
> > the point in time when the maintainer gets reset to ports@.
> 
> Nice. Well that'll only result in two processes: more and more ports
> will have maintainers reset and then removed, and remaining maintainers
> will take more and more ports beyond their ability to maintain them,
> both will lead to collapse. Is this also not undesirable?

Big +1 for Dmitry here; ports@ is perfectly fine maintainer entity, much
easier to work with, and often receives more and better care than many of
seemingly "properly" maintained ports.

./danfe



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