New port with maintainer ports@FreeBSD.org [was: Question about maintainers]

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:41:11PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
>     Or, I'll accept the fact that my address must appear in MAINTAINER
>     before you accept results of my work, but will ignore any and all
>     PRs coming my way: I don't use the software in question enough to
>     be a good maintainer, so I better don't waste my time.  In the
>     meantime, PRs for ports I have been sentenced to "maintain" hang
>     in GNATS, and later the MAINTAINER either gets reset, or the port
>     suffers from perpetual maintainer timeouts.

If you're going to play silly games, expect to be played silly games
with.

Or in other words, people will start to actively ignore your new
ports based on their experience with your current ports.

Edwin
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