Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:59:11 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Do we need a few more ports reviewers/committers? Message-ID: <4464A2BF.6060108@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <05233607@srv.sem.ipt.ru> References: <20060509004620.3a8ed7a1@serene.no-ip.org> <20060512035553.GB27663@soaustin.net> <51637568@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <44645A12.3040207@FreeBSD.org> <69557175@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <20060512105350.F3C91B81E@shodan.nognu.de> <05233607@srv.sem.ipt.ru>
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Boris Samorodov wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2006 12:53:50 +0200 Frank Steinborn wrote: > >> If you *are* the maintainer of the port use [maintainer update], >> otherwise you should consider sending your patch to the maintainer >> directly or use at least [change-request]. >> > > The phrase "If you are volunteering to maintain the port, be sure to > put [maintainer update] at the beginning of your synopsis line and set > the ``Class'' of your PR to maintainer-update." seems to tell quite > the opposite. > Note that this is following the context set in the previous paragraph, which was: "If the port is unmaintained, and you are actively using it yourself, please consider volunteering to become its maintainer." If you wish to become the maintainer of a port that is being maintained by nobody, aka ports@freebsd.org, using maintainer-update makes sense. If the port already has a maintainer, and you're not that person, using update or change-request seems more appropriate, unless you have coordinated the hand-off of maintainership already with the former maintainer and/or portmgr@. Other people feel that you should not set the Class to maintainer-update until after the PR which assigns the maintainership to you has been committed. -- -Chuck PS: For example, see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=96998
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