Maintainer timeout ports/159786 (security/ossec-hids-server)

Jake Smith jake at avenue22.net
Sun Sep 25 10:57:39 UTC 2011


On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 11:49 +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 25 September 2011 11:29, Jake Smith <jake at avenue22.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have tried to contact the current maintainer of
> > security/ossec-hids-server (valerio.daelli at gmail.com) regarding patching
> > this port due to a newer version being available, but no response.
> >
> > To help out I created a patch for the port and submitted a PR
> > (ports/159786) on Aug 15th. This has not been processed yet (Awaiting
> > maintainers feedback).
> >
> > Is the maintainer now timed out? Does this port need a new maintainer?
> >
> 
> The maintainer has timed out, and I've marked the PR open again to
> show this. I can't commit this for you right now, but someone else
> will be able to help soon.
> 
> Only if there's been no word from the maintainer in three months
> should s/he be replaced.
> 
> Chris

Thank you very much for that, I will keep an eye out for the maintainer
if they do time out I would be willing to take over the role.




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