Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:38:19 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports version upping policy? Message-ID: <425BC13B.11507.1D25687B@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504121131280.29384-100000@pancho> References: <425B85BC.8055.1C3CFD27@localhost>
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On 12 Apr 2005 at 11:34, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Dan Langille wrote: > > > "There is no maintainer for this port. Updates may be delayed." > > Some people could read that to mean that there is still some automatic > mechanism for the updates, which of course isn't true. > > Perhaps "Updates come from the community"? What about just "There is no maintainer for this port."? Or do we need to be explicit? > I'm open to suggestion, but I'll observe that people continually ask > "what is the schedule to update XYZ port" which indicates a > misunderstanding of the way things work, and anything that we can > do to change that misunderstanding is A Good Thing (TM). I agree. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ NEW brochure available at http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/advocacy/
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