Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:49:00 -0500 From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating the "Mailscanner" port Message-ID: <20090331014900.GA24235@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <20090326100430.GI56137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20090325090758.1015bc2a@scorpio> <20090326100430.GI56137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:04:30PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > If the existing maintainer has disappeared, one option would be for > you to take over maintainership: Upgrade mailscanner yourself and > submit the upgrade as a PR that also transfers maintainership to > youself. If there's no response after about 2 weeks, the port is yours. Actually, there is a 2-week timeout on updates, but a 3-month timeout on maintainer inactivity for transferring maintainership. Vacations can last more than 2 weeks :-) mcl
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