Ports with MAINTAINER= perl@FreeBSD.org

[Sahil Tandon]

On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Lars Balker Rasmussen <lars at balker.dk>  
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>  
> wrote:
>> These ports are maintained by perl at .  I am happy to adopt these  
>> ports if
>> perl@ is akin to ports@ in that these ports are up for adoption.  I
>> don't want to step on any toes so I will submit a PR to make the  
>> change
>> if there are no objections.
>
> I'm sure everybody who read this thought "Someone else will answer",
> so it didn't get done.  No, perl@ is not the same as ports at .  It's not
> generally a good idea to have important ports (like p5-Moose) relying
> on a single person or maintainer-timeouts if a sane community is
> available to handle the job.  Please pass maintainer-ship back to
> perl at .
>
> (Speaking as the former maintainer of p5-Moose, who helped prove the
> point made above).

Fine with me.  Go ahead and reset p5-Moose to perl at .  And for  
posterity, would you explain how a port is defined as 'important' so  
it cannot be maintained by an individual?  Thanks.

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Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>