From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 13 5:57:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (sentinel.office1.bg [217.75.135.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AEE737B40B for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17989 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Sep 2001 12:56:56 -0000 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:56:56 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Johann Visagie , nntpcache@nntpcache.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD nntpcache port Message-ID: <20010913155656.B13432@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Emmerton , Johann Visagie , nntpcache@nntpcache.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010913143731.C50906@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:41:03AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 08:41:03AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Johann Visagie wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > The maintainer of the FreeBSD port of NNTPCache (news/nntpcache) is listed as > > being . I note that the FreeBSD port is stuck at > > version 2.4.0b2, which according to http://www.nntpcache.org/ChangeLog.txt > > was released on 31 Dec 1999. According to the same page, the latest version > > of NNTPCache is 2.4.0b5, and even this was released as long ago as 12 Jun > > 2000. > > > > Two questions: > > > > - Is the FreeBSD port still being actively maintained by someone who responds > > to this email address? > > When a port's maintainer is listed as 'ports@freebsd.org', the port is > effectively unmaintained. The problem is that in this particular case, the maintainer is *not* ports@, but a different e-mail address. However, it would seem that a couple of updates were done after response from that address timed out, and another couple of updates were done by Julian Assange Johann, maybe you'd want to try to contact Julian Assange and ask him if he wants maintainership; if so, list him as maintainer; if not, feel free to reset maintainership to ports@FreeBSD.org and update the port. > > - Would there be any objection to me bringing the FreeBSD port up to date > > with the latest released version? > > Absolutely not. If you want to be the maintainer of the nntpcache port, > be sure to update the MAINTAINER line in the Makefile when you send in > your updates. G'luck, Peter -- If wishes were fishes, the antecedent of this conditional would be true. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message