From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 22:31:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BBEB16A4CE; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:31:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from toxic.magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA5D43D1F; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:31:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@magnesium.net) Received: by toxic.magnesium.net (Postfix, from userid 1252) id EEE07DA886; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:31:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:31:22 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger To: Mark Linimon Message-ID: <20050310223122.GI48850@toxic.magnesium.net> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , Mark Linimon , Florent Thoumie , "David E. O'Brien" , ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <20050310191906.GG48850@toxic.magnesium.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: Vim 6.3 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-PGP-Key: http://www.vectors.cx/pgp.key.txt X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx X-ASL: 6/m/behind you User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: "David E. O'Brien" cc: Florent Thoumie cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/rdesktop pkg-plist X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:31:23 -0000 >> (03.10.2005 @ 1645 PST): Mark Linimon said, in 1.4K: << > The whole idea of instituting the 2-week period for timeouts was to > state 'here is a time period after which you don't get to claim that > your toes were stepped on'. This does _not_ mean that a courtesy > email to the maintainer is not called for in either case. > > Adding the comment 'maintainer timeout' or 'no response from > maintainer' to these commits would have made clear what was happening. > portmgr@ is interested in tracking maintainer timeouts. > > The FreeBSD development model only really works if people cooperate. > To the extent that we have to have 'rules' to enforce common sense, > I'll agree with you that it's too bad. But in this case the intention > is not to create 'beauracracy', it's to prevent commit wars and > people feeling that they are wasting their time by trying to send > PRs which then later get ignored. > > And yes, there have been cases in the past where IMHO maintainers > have given up after having their attempts to fix things overruled or > ignored. We need all the (active) maintainers we can get, so this > is A Bad Thing. >> end of "Re: cvs commit: ports/net/rdesktop pkg-plist" from Mark Linimon << I really don't intend to wait two weeks for approval to keep a pkg-plist in alphabetical order. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx