Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:14:21 -0500 From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> To: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for potential ports maintainers Message-ID: <200902230914.34891.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090223012048.fe9e15bf.ota@j.email.ne.jp> References: <200902121232.30515.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20090223012048.fe9e15bf.ota@j.email.ne.jp>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On February 23, 2009 01:20:48 am Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > Thank you for your hard work, Thomas. Thanks Hiro :) > > Can I make 2 suggestions? > > 1. Can you ask PR senders if they are intersted in becoming maintainer if > port doesn't have a maintaner? Sender was moticvated enough to make a > patch. Agreed, this is something we should be more deliberate about doing. > > 2. Can you assign two or more maintaners to a port? This may improve > response time of PRs. As linimon@ pointed out later in this thread it has been discussed, but seems the framework is not in place. That said, a well placed comment field in the Makefile indicating a name/email of a person who has implicit submission rights could be helpful. While the automated assignment tools won't catch it, a committer might. > > Regards, > Hiro Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmir0oACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qD60QCfRV5M9Bd0nXIA7zAnEC3ooU6H jPUAniMz/GhtVXOJqbVC8/uYXnpfobW4 =Z0mw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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