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Date:      Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:53:45 -0500
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dropping maintainership of my ports
Message-ID:  <20110428235345.GB9411@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110427082323.GI34314@home.opsec.eu>
References:  <20110427014343.GJ38579@comcast.net> <BANLkTim0SBHNaUVhN0X9QvVm2Y_vKOf7EA@mail.gmail.com> <20110427060917.GB73524@comcast.net> <4DB7B75C.7080902@marino.st> <20110427071543.GD73524@comcast.net> <20110427074958.GA28824@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20110427082323.GI34314@home.opsec.eu>

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:23:23AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Maybe, if maintainer can "somehow easily" become ports committer,
> this hurdle might be lower ?

This has been discussed before.  The barrier to entry is currently set
at the "seems to be willing to work on FreeBSD over a period of many
months, and a fair number of PRs."

The problem with lowering it is that the Ports Collection is complex;
new committers need to e.g. understand how a single port commit might
affect other ports (e.g. broken INDEX), among many other things.

Again, it's not a new idea; it's just that we have decided not to
do it.

mcl



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