Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:22:09 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: Simon Barner <barner@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, eik@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mail/fetchmail maintainership (was: Headsup: resetting of eik's port maintainerships) Message-ID: <42DBBB11.9020601@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20050718115625.GA1528@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <20050718042654.GA11581@soaustin.net> <20050718115625.GA1528@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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[fixing eik's Cc: address from .og to .org] Simon Barner wrote: > Mark Linimon wrote: >> mail/fetchmail Makefile > > As a daily fetchmail user, I'd like to adopt this one. If there are no > objections, I'll take the maintainership in a few days. With my "de-facto upstream fetchmail maintainer" hat on (it somehow landed on my head), I'd be looking forward to cooperation with *active* downstream (FreeBSD) port maintainers or packagers. I would have suggested to pick up this package myself, but I'm not using it daily on FreeBSD but on Linux only, so Simon might be a better maintainer - assuming he's got ports commit rights, probably also the faster one. Certainly no objections from my part. Eik's been disappearing not for the first time unfortunately. I hope he's well. Something the new fetchmail package maintainer needs to know: The project has been handed over to Rob Funk and myself last year; Graham Wilson (former Debian package maintainer) and ESR are not currently active although being listed as project admins. Our new project site is <http://developer.berlios.de/projects/fetchmail>, the new web site <http://fetchmail.berlios.de/>, SVN repository accessible anonymously via HTTP (address available on request - we're no longer using the BerliOS repo, it was too unstable). The new Debian packager, Nico Golde, appears to be quite active, too, so we should check if we can consolidate our efforts. That means: check the other project's bug databases for patches before hacking away... I'd suggest using the fetchmail-devel@ list at BerliOS to coordinate efforts between upstream maintainers and port/package maintainers. There is a fetchmail release candidate (6.2.6-pre4) available at that site, which needs a) review and testing, b) translations for language with codes da el gl ja pt_BR sk sq tr (Danish, French Greek, Galician, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Slovak, Albanian and Turkish) to avoid translations from dropping off the package. Translation is coordinated through the translation project, http://translation.sourceforge.net/. I fixed a bug from the Debian BTS, related to fetchmail's tracepolls option. Regards, Matthias
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