Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:23:09 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: failure of policy Message-ID: <C24A2BAB-82CD-4F53-9DC6-A4F40ADF6275@khera.org>
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It seems that the change log on freshports for the databases/slony1 port shows that someone somewhere is confused as to who's the maintainer of the port. The Makefile clearly shows it is still me. On 23 Nov 2006, an update was issued to upgrade the 1.1.5 version to 1.2.0 which had known errors in it which cause data loss. Somehow it was applied. A few days later a manual patch was added to work around that. The initial update indicates that whomever submitted the port was either claiming to be or was assumed to be the maintainer. Then on 8 Dec 2006, another update was issued and applied, to 1.2.1. Today I saw in my email a patch to correct some error in the pkg- plist file, which is how I noticed that someone had updated the slony1 port. This is not how it is supposed to work. I should have gotten these notices on *every* PR submitted with a patch against this port. There is no reason that 1.2.0 should have *ever* hit the ports tree as it was broken out of the gate. This is one of the reason ports have maintainers: to ensure broken things don't get thrown into the collection. If the committers are not going to follow the rules, then why should anyone bother to be a maintainer?
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