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

[Lupe Christoph]

Quoting Pav Lucistnik <pav at freebsd.org>:
> Paul Schmehl pí¹e v èt 28. 07. 2005 v 16:31 -0500:

> > Thanks, Scot.  That's helpful to know.  I wasn't aware, for example, that
> > anyone could submit PRs for a broken port.

> Please don't do that, unless you also submit a fix.

> Because committers are few and usually are not very familiar with the
> given broken port. Such PRs tend to be left untouched for years and then
> swept under the carpet too often.

I see such PRs as useful. At least the save effort for people having
the same problem, pointing them to a known deficiency. And they *might*
still get fixed.

Lupe Christoph
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