From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 28 21:43:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5771065700; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net) Received: from smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA8F8FC16; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:43:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net) Received: from roundcube.xs4all.nl (roundcube7.xs4all.nl [194.109.20.205]) by smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n6SLhHnE060636; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:43:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from tournoij.xs4all.nl [83.161.253.7] with HTTP/1.1 (POST); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:43:17 +0200 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:43:17 +0200 From: Martin Tournoij To: Wesley Shields In-Reply-To: <20090724150004.GA56151@atarininja.org> References: <20090724150004.GA56151@atarininja.org> Message-ID: <29ab94b0a417fa2706426b70d6628fb6@xs4all.nl> X-Sender: carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net (j0OUBg6Aoi4ygtY5eLrlQ25TDrtDnx/1) User-Agent: XS4ALL Webmail Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Alex Dupre Subject: Re: status of FreeBSD ports you maintain as of 20090705 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:43:27 -0000 On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:00:04 -0400, Wesley Shields wrote: > And this is why I think we should have a policy of not changing > maintainer of things based upon mailing list traffic. I know I'm > guilty of doing it in the past but I have come to the conclusion that it > can cause these kinds of problems and set a precedent of people > expecting mailing list traffic to result in commits. > > We should have an official record of who requested changes in the PR > database and not give the community the idea that mailing list traffic > asking for a commit to happen is the right way to do things. > > -- WXS I don't know what the policy is nowadays ... I switched from Linux to FreeBSD years ago because of a better sense of quality and less breakage. I find myself switching from FreeBSD to OpenBSD now because of a better sense of quality and less breakage... Anyway, this is not the place to start rants, could someone please commit misc/137224 (Sorry for wrong category...) Thanks. Cheers and see you at OpenBSD, Martin