sysutils/diskcheckd needs fixing and a maintainer

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Mon Aug 22 08:46:51 UTC 2011


Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:57:17AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > I'd question _why_ valuable people like you & Chris would allow
> > your time to be distracted merely to try to get repair run time
> > capability of a port.
> 
> I haven't spent any time on this port.  I'm just trying to reply to
> traffic on the mailing list.
> 
> Most of the time is spent on maintaining the package building cluster.
> In general I'm happier to work on infrastructure patches than individual
> ports.

Great. Thanks.


> But I do try to keep up with the mailing lists, and, in this case,
> lend my support to the effort that others are doing to clean up bitrot.
> 
> I hope you can accept that it looks to me as though there are honest
> differences of opinion about what shape this port is in.

Yes, seems so.


> I personally
> have no stake in it.

Ditto. 

Cheers,
Julian
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