From owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 17:32:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C32C16A4BF; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [208.210.80.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B493143FF7; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:32:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from blues.jpj.net (localhost.jpj.net [127.0.0.1]) by blues.jpj.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h820W3t1036151; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:32:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost)h820W31Z036148; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:32:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: blues.jpj.net: trevor owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 20:32:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Nakata Maho In-Reply-To: <20030902.090822.115963958.chat95@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp> Message-ID: <20030901203125.N36109@blues.jpj.net> References: <200308310358.h7V3wrKJ003517@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030902.090822.115963958.chat95@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: edwin@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/astro/celestia Makefileports/astro/celestia/files patch-src::celestia::celestiacore.cpp X-BeenThere: cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 00:32:06 -0000 Nakata Maho wrote: > > There is no "maintainer timeout" for changes such as this which were never > > proposed to the maintainer. Also, these changes do not match your > > description of them. > > IMHO I think Edwin's statement of `maintainer timeout' is correct. > You are the maintainer of celestia, however, this PR was submitted > Mon Dec 09 12:20:01 PST 2002 about 10 month old, almost a year before. > This is *TOO* old PR, absolutely. > > I don't like such sad situation. > > I (there's no compulsion, though) think such attitude for a port > should be regarded as `drop maintainership'. > > I am a quite new committer who makes many pointy hats, > and lack of skills and knowledges, however, many people helped > me a lot. Namely there are some ports which I cannot fix by myself, > many people gave me suggestions and even enhancements > (thanks for everyone). > > So if you have some problems (lack of maintaining time or skill), > you should drop maintainership to ports@FreeBSD.org, > but still you have a right to do some enhancement or modification > whenever you want. > > I don't want to see to set some rules, like `PR outdated for 3 month > any committers can fix' since freedom is one of the good thing for FreeBSD. The changes were not in the PR. I never saw them until they were committed. -- Trevor Johnson