From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 23 19:48:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E9937B5BA for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA08234; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:48:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:48:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing ports maintainers In-Reply-To: <8e07sr$1s5u$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 24 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > > I'm not arguing in any way if the maintainers involved have been active, > > inactive, or comatose ... I'm arguing if moving from having a maintainer > > that answers only rarely if at all, is really worse than having no > > maintainer at all. > > Yes, it is. If I send in a PR with a bug fix or update and the > maintainer is a committer, the PR will be assigned to him. If he's > inactive, that PR will go down the drain. The maintainer doesn't > handle it, and nobody else will touch it since it's assigned to > the maintainer. > > I distinctly remember being very unhappy about a certain Chuck > Robey choking off any updates to the xpdf port for months. OK, I already posted that I just wanted more discussion on it, but if you must get personal, I was in the VA hospital in Baltimore MD just then, having stomach surgery. I'm not gonna apologize for that, and I *do* maintain xpdf (unless others break it). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message