svn commit: r422114 - head/misc/fortune_strfile

[Mathieu Arnold]

Le 14/09/2016 à 14:27, John Marino a écrit :
> On 9/14/2016 07:24, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>> Le 14/09/2016 à 14:21, John Marino a écrit :
>>> On 9/14/2016 01:56, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>>>> Le 14/09/2016 à 07:45, John Marino a écrit :
>>>>> Author: marino
>>>>> Date: Wed Sep 14 05:45:40 2016
>>>>> New Revision: 422114
>>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/422114
>>>>>
>>>>> Log:
>>>>>   misc/fortune_strfile: Release maintainership
>>>>>
>>>>>   This port is too simple to need a maintainer.  It's a shared
>>>>> resource
>>>>>   for all fortune ports
>>>>
>>>> You know, we do have a policy about not adding a port without a
>>>> maintainer.
>>>> Adding a port with a maintainer and dropping maintainership in the
>>>> first
>>>> 24 hours is about the same as adding it without a maintainer.
>>>
>>> Except that it's not.  I met the requirements of the policy.
>>> Moreover, others have committed new ports without a maintainer for
>>> various questionable reasons and nobody said much about that.
>>
>> I am sorry that I do not notice all the errors that are made, some I
>> see, some I do not.  When I see them, I report them.
>>
>
> But this is NOT an error.  You see it as a violation of the "spirit"
> of the policy, but it's not a violation of the policy itself.  If you
> think there should be a minimum ownership period then work on
> adjusting the policy (through consensus hopefully).  I met the
> requirements and it was all very intentionally on my part, no error at
> all, and certainly not without precedent.

And you are ranting with legalese talk again. Our policies are for
normal people, not lawyers, and thus, require you to extrapolate a bit
and use common sense.
This is why, for example, the porter's handbook is 350 pages long, not
25000, with 42 annexes.

Now, to the subject at hand, new ports must have a maintainer, in this
case, you did not follow the policy, it is a new port, and it does not
have maintainer.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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