On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 09:06:59PM +0200, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: > 2012/11/28 Kevin Oberman <kob6...@gmail.com> > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Alexander Yerenkow <yeren...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > In that case, near each port should be.mntr contact mentioned, to.make it > > > easier for anyone to contact mntr immediately, instead making additional > > > unnecessary steps. > > > > I suspect that you are missing the fact that all ports which lack a > > specific maintainer (most of them) are maintained by ports@. So the > > messages to ports are only for the vast array of ports that are > > unmaintained. There is no one else to contact. > > > > Ideally, if someone has a little free time, they can look at the list > > and pick a couple to update and submit the update in a PR to ports > > with a category of "update". Or even better, become the maintainer, > > yourself. I have been maintainer for a couple of ports that were > > critical to my work, so I could be sure that they would be updated > > promptly. > > > > Not exactly :) My suggestion about including current maintainer contact > info was about this part of discussion: > > >>Probably more to the point is that it shouldn't get sent to the ports > >>mailing list - just to port maintainers. > >Did you ever think that sending it to the list might motivate someone else > to take over the port? > >There's a reason ports get out of date. One of the reasons is because the > port maintainer has lost interest or no longer has the time. If people on > the list see it, someone who is motivated might update the >port and end up > being its new maintainer. > > So, my thought was, if you ever came to sending portscout messages with > alive maintainer to all ports@ list, would be nice to see contacts > immediately. > You could learn that some maintainer is inactive last time, and next time > you see update for his port, you could get it to work. > Something like that.
But this is exactly the point - portscout *only* sends messages to the e-mail address listed in the port's MAINTAINER line. If portscout's message goes to the po...@freebsd.org list, then there *is* no active maintainer - what Paul means is that the maintainer has lost interest (or the ability / resources / time to work on the port) and somebody has reset the port's maintainership to po...@freebsd.org. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org pe...@packetscale.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 If I had finished this sentence,
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