Ports version upping policy?

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Tue Apr 12 09:34:54 PDT 2005


On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Dan Langille wrote:

> "There is no maintainer for this port.  Updates may be delayed."

Some people could read that to mean that there is still some automatic
mechanism for the updates, which of course isn't true.

Perhaps "Updates come from the community"?

I'm open to suggestion, but I'll observe that people continually ask
"what is the schedule to update XYZ port" which indicates a
misunderstanding of the way things work, and anything that we can
do to change that misunderstanding is A Good Thing (TM).

mcl



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