www/chromium MAINTAINER,
was Re: chromium producing constant hdd access
Julian H. Stacey
jhs at berklix.com
Tue Jan 18 13:54:19 UTC 2011
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe at FreeBSD.org>
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:21:19 -0500
> Message-id: <20110118132119.GA34647 at rex.goodking.ca>
Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 01:13:19PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Reference:
> > > From: Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>=20
> > > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:48:50 +0000=20
> > > Message-id: <20110118004850.GB17292 at lonesome.com>=20
> >=20
> > Mark Linimon wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > > > rene@ has ignored request to roll back. If rene@ resigns,
> > > > MAINTAINER would revert to ports at freebsd.org so others could fix
> > > > FreeBSD's current ports/www/chromium
> > >=20
> > > Because of the legal questions surrounding chromium,
> >=20
> > I know nothing of that. Just that a month ago it compiled, now it won't.
> >=20
> > > portmgr will ensure
> > > that it does not revert to ports@ :-)
> > > mcl
> >=20
> > So how about:
> > Revert to something that will compile, with no MAINTAINER.
> > Or delete port ?
> > A port that=20
> > - wont build,=20
> > - the maintainer won't fix,=20
> > - has security issues,=20
> > - is legaly problematic
> > - ports@ is scared of inheriting
> > - that we can't fix by adding a _DEPENDS etc
> > seems a waste of time & name space,
> >=20
> > Cheers,
> > Julian
> <snip>
>
> I suggest you subscribe to
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chromium, and make
> make your intentions known about what you can do to assist in getting a
> more current version of Chromium tested, built and updated in ports.
>
> Porting a browser as complex as Chromium is a lot of work, takes a lot
> of time, and requires a lot of attention to detail.
>
> A small group of us has been assisting Rene for a while now, and we have
> decided it is now time to grow a FreeBSD Chromium Community. Within
> this community we are hoping to find testers, coders, helpers, coders,
> people with a general interest in Chromium, and did I mention coders?
>
> So please subscribe, make your inquiries, and as people come on board,
> we will be able to do more to spread the word about Chromium for
> FreeBSD.
>
> Thomas
A MAINTAINER who does not maintain is not a maintainer.
Makefile broke in the last month
MAINTAINER rene@ should add a BUILD_DEPENDS or whatever,
else resign & let someone else eg You Thomas become MAINTAINER
Cheers,
Julian
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