Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 16:17:25 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: No response Message-ID: <20000502161725.B88844@lovett.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005011400550.10311-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 02:06:17PM -0700 References: <390DA7FD.E1882A4F@seicom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005011400550.10311-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 02:06:17PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > If you send-pr them and the maintainer ignores them, talk to another > committer about getting them committed (e.g. here is fine). IMO, > maintainers should be courteous enough to say "sorry, I've been busy the > past few months, I hope to look at these soon" instead of just ignoring > the submission. > > If it becomes obvious they're not actually doing anything, just sitting on > the port and not touching it, then I think it's fine for another committer > to take responsibility for the changes and do the commit themselves. Just > mention (e.g. in the send-pr audit trail) that you've tried for X months > to get a response out of the maintainer but to no avail. > > Maintainership is supposed to be an active process, not an implementation > of /dev/null. Perhaps some words along the lines of the above should be added to the porting Handbook. I think this issue comes up enough times to warrant a paragraph or two. -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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