From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 08:54:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FF9106566C for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:54:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (lefty.soaustin.net [66.135.55.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC628FC16 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:54:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 3BAB78C068; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:54:14 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:54:14 -0600 From: Mark Linimon To: Yoshihiro Ota Message-ID: <20090223085414.GB1364@lonesome.com> References: <200902121232.30515.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20090223012048.fe9e15bf.ota@j.email.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090223012048.fe9e15bf.ota@j.email.ne.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Thomas Abthorpe Subject: Re: Call for potential ports maintainers 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, 23 Feb 2009 08:54:14 -0000 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