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Date:      Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:23:43 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com>
Cc:        Michael Scheidell <scheidell@freebsd.org>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, ehaupt@freebsd.org, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ports/164244: multimedia/mplayer: last update (1.0.r20111218) conflicts with devel/ncurses
Message-ID:  <20120122002343.6ba8fb00@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFU734zATQ47FQkOXPzjux1qAc=JcXcd6%2BHHiFjLeBGN5w0%2BaQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4F159530.3030306@freebsd.org> <20120119170425.GD23733@lonesome.com> <CAFU734zATQ47FQkOXPzjux1qAc=JcXcd6%2BHHiFjLeBGN5w0%2BaQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:00:04 +0100
Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > But the takeaway is that we can't expect the PR submitters, or even
> > port maintainers, to get anything right.  It sure makes life easier
> > when they do, but we can't take it for granted.
> > As committers, we are that QA step.
>
> And we maintainers appreciate that there is a QA step represented by a
> committer. Trust me, I do! 

I'm calling it "the safety belt". I found out how useful and relaxing
it is while moving from maintianer/submitter to committer under
mentorship to full commiter :)

-- 
IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
  "Intellectual Property" is   nowhere near as valuable   as "Intellect"
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