From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 17:01:42 2011 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 C62AC106566B for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 17:01:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barbara.xxx1975@libero.it) Received: from outrelay03.libero.it (outrelay03.libero.it [212.52.84.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0F98FC13 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 17:01:41 +0000 (UTC) X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0209.4E0DFD72.012F,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-libjamoibt: 1821 Received: from wmail45 (172.31.0.235) by outrelay03.libero.it (8.5.133) (authenticated as barbara.xxx1975@libero.it) id 4DE4FF1D01E0171C; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 19:01:38 +0200 Message-ID: <19669754.5927951309539698637.JavaMail.defaultUser@defaultHost> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 19:01:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Barbara To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SenderIP: 87.20.227.183 Cc: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" Subject: R: Re: Is anders@ still active as maintainer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Barbara List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:01:42 -0000 > >Barbara wrote: >> >> On March, four months ago, after a python upgrade, I sent a pr about >> multimedia/libkate (pr=155280) because the dependency of the port from python >> was missing. >> I tried repeatedly to contact the maintainer asking about the pr without luck. >> Without considering the fact that, looking at Makefile in cvsweb, it seems >> that he just did the first commit in 2008 and that there is a new version of >> libkate since 2010-08-10! > >According to this web page: > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-maintainer.html > >it seems to me that you now have the right to have your changes >committed without the maintainer's approval. > According to that page, he could also be replaced because more than three months have passed, but nothing happened. But no one took care of that. And this is worst than just don't have a pr committed. >> So I also proposed to add a knob to *optionally disable* libkate in >> audio/vorbis-tools - using an option yet offered in vorbis-tools configure- >> which is the only port depending on libkate together with >> multimedia/ffmpeg2theora (which has been last touched by anders on 2008-08- 04). >> The pr has been closed stating the if there is a problem with libkate it >> should be fixed, and I can mostly agree with that, but: >> - it seems that no one has tried to fixed it >> - in any case, one may want to have vorbis-tools and not necessarily libkate, >> which seems unmantained > >Which PR was this? > >I understand your frustration because I have been through similar >experiences. But recently I have been added as a committer. Since I >empathize with you, I'll look into this and see what can be done. > >Stephen > Thank you Stephen. Because of that frustration, today I filed a new pr for multimedia/libkate (158563) which supersedes the previous one, also updating the 11 months old libkate version. If you are asking about vorbis-tools, the pr is 156580 but, as I said, it has been rejected, even IMHO the reason is not correct, as I can ask for that again soon after the problems with libkate will be fixed, so what will be the reason then? But I don't want to be too polemic. Cheers Barbara