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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:08:41 -0500
From:      Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vladimir Zorin <vladimir@braveduck.spb.ru>
Cc:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bsd.php.mk suggestion
Message-ID:  <20080117150841.GC8192@atarininja.org>
In-Reply-To: <478F6BC6.8030507@braveduck.spb.ru>
References:  <478F1FED.803@peterhost.ru> <478F5F83.3060508@gmx.de> <20080117094252.27243aee.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <478F6BC6.8030507@braveduck.spb.ru>

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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:52:54PM +0300, Vladimir Zorin wrote:
> Bill Moran wrote:
>> In response to Dominic Fandrey <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>:
>> 
>>> Vladimir Zorin wrote:
>>>> I tried to get in touch with Alex Dupre, the maintainer of the
>>>> bsd.php.mk, sent him the same text as the above with the patch, but I
>>>> didn't get any response. As far as I know there are several people who
>>>> tried to contact him regarding the same issue but, alas, didn't get any
>>>> response as well.
>>> I suppose there might be the possibility of a timeout that allows committing
>>> without Maintainer feedback, if you submit it as a PR.
>> 
>> This is exactly the way to proceed.
>> 
>> If the maintainer is not responding, open the issue as a PR so it's
>> officially tracked.  If the maintainer does not respond withing a
>> reasonable length of time, request a maintainer timeout to have another
>> committer check in the patch.
> 
> Thank you for the tip, I'll do the way you described. What regards 
> "reasonable length of time" - a fortnight, for example, is reasonable 
> enough?

The default timeout is 14 days (so yes, a fortnight).  In your case it
may be longer before it's committed since it's a change to something in
Mk.  Either way, getting it into GNATS so it can be properly tracked and
analyzed by the proper people is the right thing to do.

-- WXS



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