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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:54:14 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Call for potential ports maintainers
Message-ID:  <20090223085414.GB1364@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090223012048.fe9e15bf.ota@j.email.ne.jp>
References:  <200902121232.30515.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20090223012048.fe9e15bf.ota@j.email.ne.jp>

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:20:48AM -0500, Yoshihiro Ota wrote:
> Can I make 2 suggestions?
> 
> 1. Can you ask PR senders if they are intersted in becoming maintainer if port
> doesn't have a maintaner?  Sender was moticvated enough to make a patch.

This is a good suggestion.  I have only been following up on those
when there is a maintainer-timeout, so I have not been looking at the
unmaintained ones.

> 2. Can you assign two or more maintainers to a port?  This may improve
> response time of PRs.

We have discussed that in the past but it isn't really clear if all
the tools we have work in that case.

mcl



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