maintainer timeout for FreeBSD commiters

[Matthias Andree]

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Am 18.07.2012 08:37, schrieb Lars Engels:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 05:43:02PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:09:50AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
>>> Would it be so bad if all my submitted patches (as a recognized
>>> quality contributor with history) just got committed as a passthrough?
>>
>> This has been explored on the mailing lists before, however, we don't
>> technically have a way to do either of the following:
>>
>>  - let people commit to "just some" ports
> 
> Shouldn't this work with subversion?

The problem isn't purely technical.  The technical component is easily
solved, but there are social and trust issues, and I'm not so sure if
there is a middle layer.

I think the underlying proposal might expedite the maintenance of a few
individual ports in borderline cases, but this middle layer of
contributors between submitters and committers is close enough to the
committers so that I personally would see it as a needless additional
abstraction that just complicates matters for little gain.

And then there are issues that aren't bit-sized, but larger, hence they
end up in abandoned or formally suspended PRs that contribute to the
backlog. Expediting throughput of a few ports isn't going to help those
at all, but they form the backlog...


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