svn commit: r495284 - in head/devel: valgrind valgrind-devel

[Cy Schubert]

On March 10, 2019 2:40:03 PM PDT, Jan Beich <jbeich at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>Niclas Zeising <zeising at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
>> Author: zeising
>> Date: Sun Mar 10 11:29:53 2019
>> New Revision: 495284
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/495284
>>
>> Log:
>>   Grab valgrind ports
>>   
>>   Grab valgrind ports, I know people outside the project who are
>interested in
>>   this.  Grab it in the interim.
>>   
>>   If you are interested in helping out, please let me know!
>
>Are you planning to maintain it in the meantime? I'm asking because the
>rationale looks like maintainer squatting or favoritism. In the past we
>had a similar issue with placeholder maintainer of
>ports-mgmt/portmaster
>which confused users about the actual status. The general issue stemmed
>from some committers arguing against handing out handing out
>maintainership
>to people who've never submitted a patch (to the port in question).
>That got partially addressed by portmgr@ making a policy of revoking
>maintainership after 3 months of no feedback or 3 consecutive timeouts.

Yes, I couldn't have said it better myself. 
-- 
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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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