[Bug 199582] ports-mgmt/portmaster ADOPT (take MAINTAINER)

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--- Comment #5 from John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> ---
There's lots of negatives to you doing a poor job.

1) By you picking it up 2 days after it's drop, you prevent others from being a
maintainer -- and potentially people that are more qualified.  So by applying a
first-come-first-serve approach rather than an "maintainer will be selected
from pool of applicants" approach has an obvious downside

2) portmaster is widely hated by the pool of committers.  Nobody is going to be
happy to see it languish rather than be eliminated.  So if you aren't up to the
task, there's a clear downside if the inevitable is to remove it. 

3) Portmaster is hindering people from using proper, officially supported
tools.  This is another reason committers would like to see it go if it's not
correctly supported.

4) Users are going to stick with portmaster but if it's not properly supported
you are not doing them any favors.  they'd be better served to move now.

See?

Have you really thought about these aspects?

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