cvs commit: ports/net/rdesktop pkg-plist

[Mark Linimon]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Adam Weinberger wrote:

> My only argument here is that committers should not feel
> like applying trivial fixes and routine maintenance to the ports
> tree amounts to stepping on someone's toes.

>From past traffic on the mailing lists, I believe that ports maintainers
feel _exactly_ that that is what it amounts to.

The whole idea of instituting the 2-week period for timeouts was to
state 'here is a time period after which you don't get to claim that
your toes were stepped on'.  This does _not_ mean that a courtesy
email to the maintainer is not called for in either case.

Adding the comment 'maintainer timeout' or 'no response from
maintainer' to these commits would have made clear what was happening.
portmgr@ is interested in tracking maintainer timeouts.

The FreeBSD development model only really works if people cooperate.
To the extent that we have to have 'rules' to enforce common sense,
I'll agree with you that it's too bad.  But in this case the intention
is not to create 'beauracracy', it's to prevent commit wars and
people feeling that they are wasting their time by trying to send
PRs which then later get ignored.

And yes, there have been cases in the past where IMHO maintainers
have given up after having their attempts to fix things overruled or
ignored.  We need all the (active) maintainers we can get, so this
is A Bad Thing.

mcl