svn commit: r474820 - in head/graphics: . diff-pdf

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > I did not say it was a bad idea to update the submitted port.  I said it
> > was a bad idea to do it without asking the submitter first.
> 
> I disagree: Waiting for submitter response on minor changes
> does slow down or even stall the intended action. Yes, it might
> educate the submitter, but at the expense of committer patience.
> 
> If we have better tools to estimate the submitter response time/quality,
> that might change, but until then, it's better to ask for foregiveness
> than to ask for permission.

I totally agree, for minor changes, as explained in [1]. Changing the
version of the software is not a minor change. For this port, it should
take about 2 minutes to create a patch with the new version, and open a
PR with the update.  One can then forget about it and do other stuff.
If the maintainer approves the patch, one will get a notification, and
it is easy to either create custom searches in bugzilla to see PR that
are more than 14 days old, which you can go through every few days and
commit updates that have timeouted.

1: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-maintainer.html

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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