Date: 2 Jan 2004 13:53:58 -0000 From: tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas-Martin Seck) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lost maintainers Message-ID: <20040102135358.468.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <20040102121235.568bdf46@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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* Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> [gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports]: > On 2 Jan 2004 06:16:07 -0000 > tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas-Martin Seck) wrote: [dealing with "lost" maintainers] >> This is a portmgr@ decision which should be written down somewhere. >> Especially when it comes to the definition of "long time". > > I think this is a "common sense applies" decision. A formal definition > of "long time" would be nice, yes, but so far we (the committers) > typically get it right (read: not too long) when we get bugged enough > (just add a note how long you already try to contact the unresponsive > maintainer). Well, I think it has never been a problem to find a committer to do some intermediate updates when the maintainer does not submit them himself. The problem with www/squid is that the maintainer has a commit bit and I had the feeling that committers are a bit reluctant to mess with their "colleague"'s work when I tried to get my squid updates committed during the last year. And I am a bit formal because of Adrian's commit bit. >> FWIW, I'd like to take the maintainership of www/squid. > > Which email address do you want to use (current maintainer CCed)? It would be <tmseck@netcologne.de>. >> > We can give them back the maintainership if they will back. >> >> I would not like if someone came back and took the port I just got used >> to maintain. > > I agree... as long as the old maintainer isn't better suited to do it > (e.g. author of the program). I think this can get resolved in a way > which is ok for both if such an issue shows up. Adrian has a much deeper understanding of squid than I will ever get, I guess. It's a pity that he is so unresponsive.
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