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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:48:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Removing ports maintainers
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004232246030.331-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <8e07sr$1s5u$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>

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On 24 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not arguing in any way if the maintainers involved have been active,
> > inactive, or comatose ... I'm arguing if moving from having a maintainer
> > that answers only rarely if at all, is really worse than having no
> > maintainer at all.
> 
> Yes, it is. If I send in a PR with a bug fix or update and the
> maintainer is a committer, the PR will be assigned to him. If he's
> inactive, that PR will go down the drain. The maintainer doesn't
> handle it, and nobody else will touch it since it's assigned to
> the maintainer.
> 
> I distinctly remember being very unhappy about a certain Chuck
> Robey choking off any updates to the xpdf port for months.

OK, I already posted that I just wanted more discussion on it, but if you
must get personal, I was in the VA hospital in Baltimore MD just then,
having stomach surgery.  I'm not gonna apologize for that, and I *do*
maintain xpdf (unless others break it).


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Chuck Robey            | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
chuckr@picnic.mat.net  | electronics, communications, and signal processing.

New Year's Resolution:  I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up
fictitious words in the dictionary.
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