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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:31:22 -0500
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/net/rdesktop pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20050310223122.GI48850@toxic.magnesium.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0503101539130.9147-100000@pancho>
References:  <20050310191906.GG48850@toxic.magnesium.net> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0503101539130.9147-100000@pancho>

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>> (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


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