Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:55:53 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> To: Barbara <barbara.xxx1975@libero.it> Cc: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is anders@ still active as maintainer? Message-ID: <4E0DEE09.1010908@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <5388115.5541541309507845032.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> References: <5388115.5541541309507845032.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost>
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Barbara wrote: > > On March, four months ago, after a python upgrade, I sent a pr about > multimedia/libkate (pr=155280) because the dependency of the port from python > was missing. > I tried repeatedly to contact the maintainer asking about the pr without luck. > Without considering the fact that, looking at Makefile in cvsweb, it seems > that he just did the first commit in 2008 and that there is a new version of > libkate since 2010-08-10! According to this web page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-maintainer.html it seems to me that you now have the right to have your changes committed without the maintainer's approval. > So I also proposed to add a knob to *optionally disable* libkate in > audio/vorbis-tools - using an option yet offered in vorbis-tools configure- > which is the only port depending on libkate together with > multimedia/ffmpeg2theora (which has been last touched by anders on 2008-08-04). > The pr has been closed stating the if there is a problem with libkate it > should be fixed, and I can mostly agree with that, but: > - it seems that no one has tried to fixed it > - in any case, one may want to have vorbis-tools and not necessarily libkate, > which seems unmantained Which PR was this? I understand your frustration because I have been through similar experiences. But recently I have been added as a committer. Since I empathize with you, I'll look into this and see what can be done. Stephen
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