svn commit: r402813 - head/misc/astrolog
John Marino
freebsd.contact at marino.st
Wed Dec 2 09:02:52 UTC 2015
On 12/2/2015 9:54 AM, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>
> 3) Contact the person who does most commits to this port.
I think this is a dream. I don't expect people to sort through the
history and try to figure out a commit pattern, plus the presence of a
prior commit doesn't imply a willingness for a future commit.
> IMHO ports at freebsd.org means "collectively maintained" (without any
> obligation, but with good intentions). There is no reason to put e-mail
> address in this field otherwise, just the word "unmaintained" which
> clearly indicates no contacts.
This is incorrect. It's ports at FreeBSD.org because it needs a valid
email address, in this case a mail list.
This philosophical disagreement is a problem, because I would sooner
deprecate an unmaintained port than fix it. If you care about this port
so much, then adopt it.
> BTW, maintained ports for me is worse thing. I can quickly fix any
> unmaintained port, but for maintained one I need to wait 2 weeks timeout
> and by my personal stats only ~20% maintainers reply. Either their
> emails are dead or they just ignore requests. We even don't have any
> automation to collect and remove dead maintainer addresses in regular basis.
The good news is that after 3 timeouts (or less depending on
circumstances) you can reset the maintainer. If it's a one time
timeout, that's life. If it's a theme, then we have options.
John
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