From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 10:04:59 2003 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 B73AF16A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:04:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4153443FE0 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:04:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id EABB31431D; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:04:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:04:58 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: Marc Olzheim In-Reply-To: <20031104164207.GA93746@stack.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: games/ptkei 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: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 18:04:59 -0000 > It seems that non-maintainer updates for ports are not handled, so I was > wondering what is needed to replace a maintainer that doesn't reply to > mail any more... This is really two separate questions. The first is that non-maintainer updates for ports are indeed handled. There is, however, a substantial (over 500) backlog of them. In a volunteer project, they'll only get done as fast as the volunteers get to them :-) The second is more of a political question. There is a procedure for removing maintainers who no longer show an interest in FreeBSD -- in fact, this was done fairly recently for a number of folks who presumably no longer have time to work on things. But again, to respect the fact that we really do want to make maintaining ports as little hassle as possible, this is something that should only be done after a long period of inactivity IMHO. Having said all that, perhaps you can get someone to commit your PR with a "maintainer timeout" annotation. But believe me, there's a number of people (including me) who are trying to whittle down this huge backlog. Although progress is being made, further patience is still called for. Just the view from here IMHO. Thanks, Mark Linimon