From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 23 17: 5:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9674337B940 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 17:05:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: from C992631-A.pinol1.sfba.home.com (C992631-A.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.12.58.155]) by shale.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA97220; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 02:05:16 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: (from reg@localhost) by C992631-A.pinol1.sfba.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA04202; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 17:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reg) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 17:04:58 -0700 From: Jeremy Lea To: Chuck Robey Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing ports maintainers Message-ID: <20000423170458.B308@shale.csir.co.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 07:55:59PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, 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. I think he's doing the right thing. Inactive maintainers slow things down. PR's sit in the database because it's been assigned to a maintainer that's not looking, and so no one else fixes it. Major patch sets go out for review and are delayed waiting for maintainers who never respond... If a port is broken or out of date and the maintainer is ports@ then everyone knows that they can just fix it. I know when I've had sudden spurts of fixing ports from bento's logs that I always start with the ports with no maintainer. Regards, -Jeremy -- FreeBSD - Because the best things in life are free... http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message