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Date:      Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:27:21 -0500
From:      Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New port with maintainer ports@FreeBSD.org [was: Question about maintainers]
Message-ID:  <790a9fff050728142793c7588@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <FACB47A35BF38243FBC04766@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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On 7/28/05, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:
> Now I've finally created ports for the sensor and server portions of
> sguild, and I'm working on the client portion.  If FreeBSD adopts the
> policy you suggest in your last paragraph, hat would me that I would *als=
o*
> have to take over maintainence for the following ports: tcl, itcl, tk and
> iwidgets.
>=20
> Can you imagine for a moment how intimidated I would have been had I had =
to
> take on that additional challenge?  I am not a programmer.  I've taken

You wouldn't have to take on an additional challenge if one of the
dependant ports is broken for a port your creating, what you could do
is:

  1. if MAINTAINER is not ports@, send a message to the MAINTAINER of the p=
ort
  2. Send a PR for the port with a description of the breakage and a
build.log containing the error
  3. Same as 2, but you also correct the problem in the port, and
include a Patch in the PR
  4. Same as 3, and also ask to take maintainership if MAINTAINER is ports@=
.
  5. Send a message to ports@ to see if anyone else had a problem with
that port, and a if they have a solution

Scot
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