drop multimedia@ maintainership on some ports

Tijl Coosemans tijl at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 20 15:31:47 UTC 2019


On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:12:25 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 02:44:34PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 01:31:11PM +0100, Jan Beich wrote:
>>> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>> I am planning to drop maintainership of some ports actually maintained by
>>>> multimedia@ to ports@ in order to give a chance to anyone to jump on it and
>>>> maintain them directly if needed.
>>> 
>>> Hmm, I had the opposite reaction from another portmgr@ peer.
>>> 
>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2018-October/189060.html
>> 
>> Interesting I bet we do need to have a portmgr discussion here.
> 
> After discussing with mat we are actually aligned, what mat is describing there
> is the default policy for when we do reset maintainership, as it will start
> becoming complicated if there was specific policy. But then the team itself can
> decide on the fact to actually maintain those or not.

Can you review gnome@ ports as well while you're at it? :)  They
maintain over 500 ports many of which aren't gnome related and almost
half are out of date according to portscout.freebsd.org.


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