From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 20 21:43:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B5237B401 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7DFB43FAF for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:43:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from optimator.noacks.org (adsl-65-71-33-61.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [65.71.33.61])h6L4gxvh023721 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:42:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from alumni.rice.edu (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B058241 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:42:58 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3F1B6FCC.8010700@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:45:00 -0500 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: maintainer timeout? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 04:43:01 -0000 How long should one wait on a maintainer? I've emailed them directly and they said they would take care of updating the port "tonight". That was 5 days ago. The latest version of the software was released almost 2 months ago, and fixed major stability issues. A whole host of vendor patches have been released *since then* that have fixed 2 Major (vendor terms), 4 Medium, and various other issues. There have been several outstanding PRs that are several weeks old and one that is 4 months old (although it is for the version currently in the port, not the latest version). There was a previous commit by a non-maintainer after a ~3 month timeout (same maintainer). I'm not sure I have the expertise to take over the port, but I don't know what else to do now. Any guidance would be appreciated, Jon Noack