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Date:      Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:26:48 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>
To:        Barbara <barbara.xxx1975@libero.it>
Cc:        stephen@missouri.edu, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re: Is anders@ still active as maintainer?
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On 1 July 2011 19:40, Barbara <barbara.xxx1975@libero.it> wrote:
>>>Barbara wrote:
>>>> On March, four months ago, after a python upgrade, I sent a pr about
>>>> multimedia/libkate (pr=155280) because the dependency of the port from
>>python
>>>> was missing.
>>>> I tried repeatedly to contact the maintainer asking about the pr without
>>luck.
>>>> Without considering the fact that, looking at Makefile in cvsweb, it seems
>>>> that he just did the first commit in 2008 and that there is a new version
>>of
>>>> libkate since 2010-08-10!
>>>
>>>According to this web page:
>>>
>>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-maintainer.
> html
>>>
>>>it seems to me that you now have the right to have your changes
>>>committed without the maintainer's approval.
>>>
>>
>>According to that page, he could also be replaced because more than three
>>months have passed, but nothing happened.
>>But no one took care of that. And this is worst than just don't have a pr
>>committed.
>>
>
> That's why it's worst.
> Look at my new pr...
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/158563
> gosh
>

Hi Barbara,

I'm sorry you've been waiting so long. I've just spoken with some
portmgr members and the port has been reassigned.

Thank you for persevering with improvements!

Chris



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