Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:42:07 -0500 From: "Adam C. Migus" <adam@migus.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: dom@happygiraffe.net Subject: Re: Maintainer timeout (was: Re: textproc/p5-XML-LibXML broken, why?) Message-ID: <200401092042.07182.adam@migus.org> In-Reply-To: <1073697268.42838.61.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <200401091911.19186.adam@migus.org> <20040110021123.28ae8435.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> <1073697268.42838.61.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Friday 09 January 2004 8:14 pm, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 20:11, Clement Laforet wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:43:51 +1100 > > > > Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> wrote: > > > If the maintainer of a port does not respond to an update > > > request from a user after two weeks (excluding major public > > > holidays), > > > > I would just add a foot note ;) > > Unless it's a security or a critical fix, please contact maintainer > > first. If you don't received an answer within a reasonable timeout > > (3 days to 1 week), feel free to fill a PR. > > This includes emails as well as PRs. Of course, it's best to > formalize requests as PRs. > > With regard to p5-XML-LibXML, I had contacted the maintainer (skv@) > on September 4, 2003 about this port as it was breaking during the > 4.9-RELEASE build. That is sufficiently long to constitute an AWOL > maintainer. If someone has a patch, and would like to maintain this > port, they are welcome to do so. > > Joe > > > clem I have been asked to accept maintainership of another set of ports; specifically the www/p5-AxKit-* ports by their current maintainer after I submitted patches to him privately. Since these ports rely on this one I will accept maintainership of it if no one else wishes to do so. Please let me know. -- Adam C. Migus - http://people.migus.org/~amigus/
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