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Date:      Mon, 27 Jun 2016 20:16:41 +0200
From:      Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
To:        koobs@FreeBSD.org, Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, araujo@freebsd.org
Cc:        Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@tu-dortmund.de>, marino@freebsd.org, ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports Management Team <portmgr@freebsd.org>, Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: blanket portmgr approval vs. non-fixing changes
Message-ID:  <57716D89.1050108@sorbs.net>
In-Reply-To: <9364c255-9733-b1a0-68a1-a058ca78d95e@FreeBSD.org>
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Kubilay Kocak wrote:
>
> All: How did you feel the first time you saw your email on a maintainer
> line? That is priceless and shouldn't be confused with the 'bad' kind of
> ownership.
>

Don't forget that many people see their name/email in the maintainer 
line as being responsible for the port.. so someone goes makes blanket 
changes which actually breaks stuff.. that reflects on the person in the 
Maintainer line - whether you want it to do so or not, whether you 
believe it or not..

Regards,

-- 
Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/




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