From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 04:17:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F92106564A for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:17:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@missouri.edu) Received: from wilberforce.math.missouri.edu (wilberforce.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497878FC14 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (wilberforce.math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.213]) by wilberforce.math.missouri.edu (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q0G4HLic015842; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:17:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from stephen@missouri.edu) Message-ID: <4F13A4D1.6060808@missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:17:21 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Da Rock References: <4F139C43.1050609@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4F139C43.1050609@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acroread: contacting maintainer X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:17:23 -0000 On 01/15/2012 09:40 PM, Da Rock wrote: > What is the correct way to contact the maintainer for a port? Does one > contact directly? Or through a list (this one?)? Or pr? > > I'm trying to contact the maintainer of the acroread ports to see if > they can put in a dependency on linux-f10-cups-libs for the ease of use > by general users, and to enable acceptance by the graphics industry niche. > > I tried a direct email, but I've received no response as yet after > several days; and I'm not 100% sure I did the right thing. > > Cheers Contacting the maintainer is definitely a good thing to do. He might be on vacation, or busy with some other aspect of life - who knows. A few days is definitely not a long time to wait. Another way to do it is to submit a PR with your proposed change. THe maintainer of the port will be automatically contacted and asked to approve the changes. If the maintainer doesn't reply after a few months, you can ask for a maintainer timeout, and someone will then commit it. But I think waiting for a few more days for the maintainer to reply is a good thing to do. I have used this strategy very successfully many times in the past. Stephen