[Bug 192429] mail/squirrelmail-password_forget-plugin: newer version (2.3) is available

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192429

John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|Needs Triage                |Issue Resolved
         Resolution|---                         |Not Enough Information

--- Comment #5 from John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Leif Velcro from comment #4)
> I suppose I must sheepishly choose Option #2, but could you tell me where to
> go to suggest similar updates and improvements in the future, particularly
> if the maintainer is listed as ports at FreeBSD.org?
> 
> I've gotten scolded by maintainers for contacting them directly and told to
> add the request as a bug report, and then re-scolded when adding it into the
> old GNATS system.

In most cases you aren't telling a maintainer anything new.  There's a tool
called portscout (http://portscout.freebsd.org/) that often tells them exactly
when a new update is available.  You certainly can ask if they know about it
and if so, if/when they plan to update the port.  That's fine to do so you
shouldn't have been scolded (I guess it depends on the tact you took)

Apparently it was once acceptable to request updates on GNATS but this policy
has changed, and it's never been allowed on bugzilla (all 2 months of it).

again, the best approach is to provide a patch that updates it, then all the
maintainer has to do is "approve" it, and then a committer will commit it.  But
just asking "hey, how about updating that?" is probably going to have mixed
results.

Sorry I don't have better advice...


We don't have a "withdraw" disposition, so I'll close with "not enough info"
where info is the patch we didn't get. :)

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