Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:47:15 -0800 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: marino@freebsd.org Cc: koobs@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r406959 - in head/math: . py-cdecimal Message-ID: <CAH7qZfukvA66KueNq11CiNeX3cPN35HeFZ76uJ68hdsr9REkzQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56A33831.6000008@marino.st> References: <201601230258.u0N2wKlQ026236@repo.freebsd.org> <56A3280F.5030005@FreeBSD.org> <CAH7qZfsVE9fhO-xVmQZbFq9NtO0JRf%2BZHV_ZT%2BO=Bf1SExnMgA@mail.gmail.com> <56A33831.6000008@marino.st>
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Would it make you happier if I take maintainership and drop it tomorrow? :) Technically not forbidden. Just to give you some background, I used to maintain few hundred ports back in the days, so I am very discreet now. It just says about some rules being quite out of date / unflexible, IMHO. As an average joe user, between port not being present and port being maintained by community I'd definitely prefer the latter, as it gives me a good chance that it would just work. It would have saved me some time today (which is why I did it, not because I've had nothing else better to do on Friday afternoon). And if it does not work, it gives user incentive to file a PR. So it's win-win all over the place. For myself, it just saves me a trouble to having another chunk of private code in my own port repo. -Max On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:22 AM, John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> wrote: > On 1/23/2016 9:19 AM, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Nah, it's just few lines of makefile-foo. Don't feel like getting > > married to it for the rest of my life. :) > > > > "MAINTAINER= ports@FreeBSD.org" means that anybody can tweak/update it > > without getting blocked by me. > > Well, except for that it's a documented rule that all new ports must > have a maintainer. I thought there was even an SVN hook to enforce the > rule. > > and for the 1000th time: MAINTAINER=ports@freebsd.org == unmaintained, > easy to purge if the port acts up. > Not everyone subscribes to community maintainership. >
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