R: Re: Is anders@ still active as maintainer?

Barbara barbara.xxx1975 at libero.it
Fri Jul 1 18:40:10 UTC 2011



>>
>>Barbara wrote:
>>>
>>> On March, four months ago, after a python upgrade, I sent a pr about
>>> multimedia/libkate (pr=155280) because the dependency of the port from 
>python
>>> was missing.
>>> I tried repeatedly to contact the maintainer asking about the pr without 
>luck.
>>> Without considering the fact that, looking at Makefile in cvsweb, it seems
>>> that he just did the first commit in 2008 and that there is a new version 
>of
>>> libkate since 2010-08-10!
>>
>>According to this web page:
>>
>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-maintainer.
html
>>
>>it seems to me that you now have the right to have your changes 
>>committed without the maintainer's approval.
>>
>
>According to that page, he could also be replaced because more than three 
>months have passed, but nothing happened.
>But no one took care of that. And this is worst than just don't have a pr 
>committed.
>

That's why it's worst.
Look at my new pr...
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/158563
gosh



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