request maintainership: audio/xmms-crossfade

[Sam Lawrance]

On 23/02/2006, at 12:25 AM, Markus Brueffer wrote:

> Am Wednesday 22 February 2006 07:46 schrieb Sam Lawrance:
>> On 22/02/2006, at 5:28 PM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>>> On 2/21/06, Sam Lawrance <lawrance at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> On 21/02/2006, at 10:16 PM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/91181
>>>>>
>>>>> I can maintain this port while pat is silent.
>>>>
>>>> Well, here are some references which should point you to the first
>>>> step :-)
>>>>
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-
>>>> ports/
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem- 
>>>> reports/
>>>
>>> Okay, okay, I'm _sorry_
>>>
>>> Just a little tired of waiting. BTW I've already had the one-time
>>> pleasure of reading all these fine piecies of documentation (and
>>> most of others at the location) and enjoy watching them being
>>> updated.
>>
>> Well, I only pointed them out because the _only_ way we can set you
>> as maintainer is if you file a PR with the change, and it either
>> times out after 14 days, or pat approves the change.
>
> For maintainer changes the timeout is actually 3 months according  
> to the
> porters handbook.

You are correct.  A PR is still the best way forward.