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

[Matthias Apitz]

On Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:56:38 CEST, Kurt Jaeger <pi at freebsd.org> 
wrote:
> 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...
> 

Yes. In this case, it would be better to create additional mailing-lists 
for this collective approach like, example, freebsd-multimedia-maintainer@  
...

Don't you agree?

matthias


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