Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:31:33 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing ports maintainers Message-ID: <20000423223133.O397@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004231951580.331-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 07:55:59PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004231951580.331-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 07:55:59PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > If this is being done because Kris can't get a response when he wants > changes, and he doesn't want to wait, I think that possibly he's doing > folks a disservice, because I think some mainatainer is probably better > than none at all, and for the majority of what he's doing, that's going to > be the ultimate effect. The exact opposite is true: a deadweight maintainer stalls progress and PRs that "wait for MAINTAINER feedback" that never arrives. Maintainership is not a passive state. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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