Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 10:02:47 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, marino@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r402813 - head/misc/astrolog Message-ID: <565EB3B7.8030208@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <565EB1AC.4000508@freebsd.org> References: <201512020629.tB26TbDb060296@repo.freebsd.org> <565E9DFA.6050502@marino.st> <565EAB52.6010301@freebsd.org> <565EAD1E.8080805@marino.st> <565EB1AC.4000508@freebsd.org>
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On 12/2/2015 9:54 AM, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > 3) Contact the person who does most commits to this port. I think this is a dream. I don't expect people to sort through the history and try to figure out a commit pattern, plus the presence of a prior commit doesn't imply a willingness for a future commit. > IMHO ports@freebsd.org means "collectively maintained" (without any > obligation, but with good intentions). There is no reason to put e-mail > address in this field otherwise, just the word "unmaintained" which > clearly indicates no contacts. This is incorrect. It's ports@FreeBSD.org because it needs a valid email address, in this case a mail list. This philosophical disagreement is a problem, because I would sooner deprecate an unmaintained port than fix it. If you care about this port so much, then adopt it. > BTW, maintained ports for me is worse thing. I can quickly fix any > unmaintained port, but for maintained one I need to wait 2 weeks timeout > and by my personal stats only ~20% maintainers reply. Either their > emails are dead or they just ignore requests. We even don't have any > automation to collect and remove dead maintainer addresses in regular basis. The good news is that after 3 timeouts (or less depending on circumstances) you can reset the maintainer. If it's a one time timeout, that's life. If it's a theme, then we have options. John
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