Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:30:15 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Taking over maintainership of devel/py-ice, next steps Message-ID: <20121026213015.0eae2a90@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <20121006130005.07df923d@bsd64.grem.de> References: <20121006130005.07df923d@bsd64.grem.de>
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 13:00:05 +0200 Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote: > Hi, > > After some complications while submitting a patch to devel/py-ice > (getting a patch containing UTF-8 characters through the PR > system) the maintainer finally managed to apply the patch > successfully, but also decided to give up maintainership. Since I'm > already managing devel/ice and the two ports work closely together, I > offered to take over maintainership. > > Tony (the maintainer) wrote "Ok this all worked fine so can commit and > make yourself maintainer, thanks!" > ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/171645#reply9 ) > > I'm not the maintainer yet and I don't hold any commit bits, so I > don't think I can do any of these things myself. So what is the exact > process at this point? I understand how this works for abandoned > ports, but this is new to me and I couldn't find anything about such > a process in the Porter's Handbook[1], Contributing to the FreeBSD > Ports Collection[2] or Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports[3]. > > Thanks, > Michael > > 1. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.html > 2. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/article.html > 3. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html > Hi, Sorry to bother the list about this again, but I would really like to finish upgrading the port - since the maintainer is really short in time this got kind of stuck in the middle. He's fine with passing on maintainership and also with the patch - if the PR is too messy for a committer (there were a couple of - unresolved - encoding issues) I would suggest to close it, pass maintainership to me and I will open a new PR to get the updates in. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Gmelin
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