From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 12 01:36:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F55E106566B for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:36:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bdrewery@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80298FC16 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:36:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q8C1aObi018245 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:36:24 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from bdrewery@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q8C1aO7B018224 for ports@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:36:24 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery) Received: (qmail 57969 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2012 20:36:17 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.0.115?) (freebsd@shatow.net@10.10.0.115) by sweb.xzibition.com with ESMTPA; 11 Sep 2012 20:36:17 -0500 Message-ID: <504FE6EC.8050903@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:35:40 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Ports References: <504FCA11.9000302@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <504FCA11.9000302@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 OpenPGP: id=3C9B0CF9; url=http://www.shatow.net/bryan/bryan.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alberto Villa , Olli Hauer , Chris Rees , Michael Scheidell Subject: Re: MAINTAINER lines and Real Names X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:36:25 -0000 On 9/11/2012 6:32 PM, Olli Hauer wrote: > On 2012-09-12 00:50, Michael Scheidell wrote: >> Like with Apache, x 11, or perl? >> Trying to get something there committed it's like pulling tiger teeth with >> a pair of pliers. return I agree multiple maintainers is a bad idea. >> If someone is technical enough to want to maintain that, they can always >> use an alias it goes to a group. >> Oh, were talking to Apache x 11 or Perl again >> I see the proposal less about *FreeBSD Ports Teams* and more about *Non-FreeBSD* groups. We can only blame ourselves for having non-responsive teams, or having *mailing lists* be maintainers. I see the benefit here more about allowing us to commit PR from any of the listed addresses, as well as allow end-users to have more *people* to contact. > > > I see no reason for having multiple MAINTAINERS. > Commit with implicit and if you like give a statement > http://wiki.freebsd.org/MaintainerNotes about co-maintaining. > > I already wiped my eyes on this commit > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=304107 This is less about implicit approval, and more about having more support contact for end-users. There's nothing stopping anyone from doing this in other pors, why not make it standard for 'make maintainer' to list these people. There's no harm. > > Or as Alberto already explained the reasons for a team form one. > > @Michael > Trolling or experience? > > $> query-pr -c ports -r apache -y scheidel -q > query-pr: no PRs matched > > $> query-pr -c ports -r perl -y scheidel -q > oh, found two PR's for 4.11 and 5.5 > > $> query-pr -c ports -r x11 -y scheidel -q > query-pr: no PRs matched > > > -- > Regards, > olli > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Bryan Drewery bdrewery@freenode/EFNet