bugzilla messages about issues related to freebsd-ports, freebsd-multimedia, ...

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> why as MAINTAINER a full discussion(!) mailing list is used?

Having individuals as maintainers can cause delays in
approving patches and providing updates. So at some time in the
past, some groups of port maintainers choose to band together
and have a mailing list -- and changed the MAINTAINER to
the list, so that each member of the list could update the port,
if it was needed.

This can cause other delays, because no-one might feel responsible
for a port, so recently, bugmeister@ choose to add (Nobody) to
some of the group maintainers, so that others do not wait
for group approval.

It's a problem of assigning some feel of 'ownership and responsibility'
on the one hand and delegation on the other.

I take it from your question that you feel this is not a good
solution...

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