svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster
John Marino
freebsd.contact at marino.st
Wed Jan 27 14:24:25 UTC 2016
On 1/27/2016 3:14 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
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>
> +--On 27 janvier 2016 15:04:56 +0100 John Marino
> <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:
> | On 1/27/2016 2:53 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> |> +--On 27 janvier 2016 09:29:55 +0100 John Marino
> |>
> |> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/rules.html
> |>
> |> 5. Any disputed change must be backed out pending resolution of the
> |> dispute if requested by a maintainer. Security related changes may
> |> override a maintainer's wishes at the Security Officer's discretion.
> |>
> |
> | Okay, let's play lawyer then.
> |
> | "request by a maintainer".
>
> The ports tree is the responsibility of portmgr, henceforce, the global
> maintainer of the ports tree, is portmgr, Bryan said it was a bad idea,
> and Erwin asked you to revert it. Both are members of portmgr.
Er, that's not what Bryan said. He said there should be a discussion on it.
And this definition of "maintainer" has never been mentioned before.
Should I reassign all PRs of unmaintained ports in bugzilla to portmgr?
according to this definition, yes, that's what should happen. "Be
careful what you wish for" comes to mind.
>
> So, revert it.
>
What is the forward plan?
If you or edwin revert it, I will not start a commit war. I'll respect
it and not deprecate again, but demand a decision be taken. This is a
principle thing for me.
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