How does a port maintainer use the bug database?

[Mark Felder]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014, at 15:18, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
> I’m the maintainer of level/bin86 (more out of general interest in
> learning the ropes of port maintainance rather than the port itself).
> 
> I have submitted a PR to update the port to use a bit more modern
> practices:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193889
> 
> I submitted the PR with a different email than the one on the maintainer
> field, this made the bug database to send email to the maintainer address
> asking for approval which I in my view did but I’m not sure what was
> really required because I didn’t get any specific instructions of what to
> do.
> 
> Is it now just a case of waiting till someone with commit rights picks up
> this PR or something else?
> 

Yes, a committer just needs to pick it up and commit it.