Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:32:28 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 199582] ports-mgmt/portmaster ADOPT (take MAINTAINER) Message-ID: <bug-199582-13-BfyCUXOiBN@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-199582-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-199582-13@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199582 --- Comment #7 from Chris Hutchinson <portmaster@bsdforge.com> --- (In reply to John Marino from comment #5) > There's lots of negatives to you doing a poor job. > > 1) By you picking it up 2 days after it's drop, you prevent others from > being a maintainer -- and potentially people that are more qualified. So by > applying a first-come-first-serve approach rather than an "maintainer will > be selected from pool of applicants" approach has an obvious downside I still don't see myself as unqualified. > > 2) portmaster is widely hated by the pool of committers. Nobody is going to > be happy to see it languish rather than be eliminated. So if you aren't up > to the task, there's a clear downside if the inevitable is to remove it. I only offered that, because you seem so adamant about my inability to maintain it. *Not* because I think you may be correct in that regard. > > 3) Portmaster is hindering people from using proper, officially supported > tools. This is another reason committers would like to see it go if it's > not correctly supported. > > 4) Users are going to stick with portmaster but if it's not properly > supported you are not doing them any favors. they'd be better served to > move now. > > See? Yes. > > Have you really thought about these aspects? Yes. Except that I haven't considered the "committers hate portmaster" aspect, except that you brought it up earlier. Which also would include that affect on the others you mention. So am I to understand that *potentially* making portmaster better would also leave it "hated"? Is there no salvation for portmaster? This seems part of the larger message here. --Chris -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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