cvs commit: ports/astro/celestia Makefileports/astro/celestia/files patch-src::celestia::celestiacore.cpp

Trevor Johnson trevor at jpj.net
Mon Sep 1 17:32:06 PDT 2003


Nakata Maho wrote:

> > There is no "maintainer timeout" for changes such as this which were never
> > proposed to the maintainer.  Also, these changes do not match your
> > description of them.
>
> IMHO I think Edwin's statement of `maintainer timeout' is correct.
> You are the maintainer of celestia, however, this PR was submitted
> Mon Dec 09 12:20:01 PST 2002 about 10 month old, almost a year before.
> This is *TOO* old PR, absolutely.
>
> I don't like such sad situation.
>
> I (there's no compulsion, though) think such attitude for a port
> should be regarded as `drop maintainership'.
>
> I am a quite new committer who makes many pointy hats,
> and lack of skills and knowledges, however, many people helped
> me a lot. Namely there are some ports which I cannot fix by myself,
> many people gave me suggestions and even enhancements
> (thanks for everyone).
>
> So if you have some problems (lack of maintaining time or skill),
> you should drop maintainership to ports at FreeBSD.org,
> but still you have a right to do some enhancement or modification
> whenever you want.
>
> I don't want to see to set some rules, like `PR outdated for 3 month
> any committers can fix' since freedom is one of the good thing for FreeBSD.

The changes were not in the PR.  I never saw them until they were
committed.
-- 
Trevor Johnson


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