Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:53:54 +0100 From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: games/ptkei Message-ID: <20031104235354.GA96239@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311041159120.23473-100000@pancho> References: <20031104164207.GA93746@stack.nl> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311041159120.23473-100000@pancho>
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:04:58PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > 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 :-) For which many thanks, of course. > 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. Would more than 1 year classify ? I sent the PR because the current entry does not work with the new python anymore, but there have been new versions of this program for a longer period of time. > Having said all that, perhaps you can get someone to commit your > PR with a "maintainer timeout" annotation. Well, since the maintainer does not reply to mail anymore, I'm volunteering to take this one over, because I use the port myself... > 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. This was not an attack to anyone, just my point of view. Another piece of software I maintain is port-maintained by some one else and my PR for an update did not have effect either. After the port-maintainer sent a PR after that one, it was handled... (games/eif) Knowing that you should be able to rely on a large group of users to do stuff for you, I'd rather have me as maintainer for this port than someone who doesn't read mail anymore... Just a bit frustrated... ;-/ Zlo
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