maintainer timeout for FreeBSD commiters

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Sat Jul 14 14:56:09 UTC 2012


On 14 July 2012 07:51, Chris Rees <crees at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 14 July 2012 15:05, Radim Kolar <hsn at filez.com> wrote:
>> can be maintainer timeout for port patch submissions implemented for people
>> which are FREEBSD commiters? I see no reason why they should be exception
>> from standard port processing. If they do not care about their ports, they
>> should not have power to obstruct other people work.
>>
>> I have really long term bad experience with that (usually there are stuck
>> for 6+ months). I know that it was discussed, but nothing constructive was
>> done.
>>
>> currently i have in queue just these 2:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/166488
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/167289
>
> No-one is exempt from timeouts on ports except secteam and portmgr.
>
> Have you reminded them by email recently?  Apache@ is a team, so it's
> a little uncertain where timeouts and approval stands with them.

Generally, teams can't timeout. Try poking them a bit and see what they say. :)


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Eitan Adler


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