From owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 11:56:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711A6106566B; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:56:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B848FC15; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:56:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 145B356205; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:56:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:56:30 -0500 From: Mark Linimon To: Frederic Culot Message-ID: <20120410115630.GB2456@lonesome.com> References: <201204092351.q39Npi6F025202@repoman.freebsd.org> <20120410091537.GK98668@gahrfit.gahr.ch> <20120410114537.GL17460@culot.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120410114537.GL17460@culot.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, bapt@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pietro Cerutti Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games/8kingdoms Makefile ports/misc/airoflash Makefile ports/graphics/autopano-sift Makefile ports/x11/avant-window-navigator-xfce4 Makefile ports/lang/boo Makefile ports/x11/cl-clx-sbcl Makefile ports/palm/coldsync ... X-BeenThere: cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:56:30 -0000 On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:45:38PM +0200, Frederic Culot wrote: > To conciliate such a necessary action without hurting the feelings of those > maintainers who despite their work could not update the state of their port in a > timely manner, maybe it would be good to be more verbose in the log of such > commits. Inspired by linimon's emails, something like the following could be > added: I do get some responses from maintainers to those emails, and (except in the cases where the email gets stuck in my mbox) I honor their requests for an extension. OTOH in general I get personal replies and not replies to the list, so people aren't seeing that interaction in public. >From my standpoint, by the time something has been broken for 6 months, the maintainer will have already gotten multiple emails from portsmon. So, I'm going to have to say I'm a little frustrated if I need to send another round of mail even on top of that. mcl