New port with maintainer ports@FreeBSD.org [was: Question about maintainers]

[Simon Barner]

>     Let's pretend the "tag-you're-it" regime is in force, which will
>     make me think twice before I contribute a port (or send-pr a patch
>     for anything unmaintained).  I'll either maintain my changes (new
>     ports and patches to existing ones) ouside the ports tree, which
>     means increased overhead for me, and others will need to reinvent
>     the wheel.
> 
>     Or, I'll accept the fact that my address must appear in MAINTAINER
>     before you accept results of my work, but will ignore any and all
>     PRs coming my way: I don't use the software in question enough to
>     be a good maintainer, so I better don't waste my time.  In the
>     meantime, PRs for ports I have been sentenced to "maintain" hang
>     in GNATS, and later the MAINTAINER either gets reset, or the port
>     suffers from perpetual maintainer timeouts.

Yes, this is of course the obious reply to my message, and which is also
probably why there is no official policy on this.

Please regard my previous email as my _personal_ opinion and not as an
offical statement of the project.

Simon
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