cvs commit: ports/games/cgoban2 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist

[Oliver Eikemeier]

Volker Stolz wrote:

> Am 06. Aug 2004 um 12:25 CEST schrieb Oliver Eikemeier:
>>>  Approved by:    The-Not-Really-Much-To-Do-Here-Department
>>
>> Who are the members of the The-Not-Really-Much-To-Do-Here-Department?
>> Has Steffen Mazanek CCed?
>
> Please check the commit-history of this port: It is basically just a 
> single
> JAR-file and older versions get removed from the master-site as soon 
> as a
> new one is released, leading to frequent brokeness. Steffen didn't 
> object to
> the previous minor update and received a forward of the commit-message.
> [I appreciate that somebody even bothers to take a look, though! If 
> portmgr
> disapproves of this practice in general, I'll take the blame.]

Hmmm... When you feel we need something less bureaucratic that waiting 
for maintainer approval for small fixes, we should establish rules for 
that and document them. I even wondered myself how to document this for 
some of my ports (Basically saying that I care for them, but feel fine 
when others will fix bug when they find them).

OTOH I can't see whether Steffen was happy with the last minor update by 
just looking at the commit log, and I don't like fake approvals. Let 
this commit stand as is, it is no big deal in this case, but since you 
have to draw the line somewhere either submit criteria for commits that 
don't need maintainer approval so we can discuss them (preferred fix) or 
just wait for maintainer timeout next time (easy fix).

Btw, perhaps Steffen should submit a request upstream to keep older 
versions a little longer, to avoid the problems we are currently 
experiencing. This would be better than silently fixing the symptoms 
without improving the situation.

-Oliver