Please revert unapproved commit to x11-wm/fvwm3
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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:22:16 UTC
I'm maintaining a few ports in my spare time. I do my best to help people running into issues with them, on the forums, lists, bugzilla, ... Now, please refer to <https://bugs.freebsd.org/265291>. This is about a crash I can't reproduce myself, and it *looks* like some UB is causing it. When my feedback as a maintainer is requested via maintainer-feedback?, I set it to maintainer-feedback+ as soon as I provide that feedback. Actually, that's what's documented for that flag: | * Set (+) when you provide feedback. Avoids "maintainer timeout" | (MAINTAINER) I really don't need any "maintainer timeout" to hit me while trying to fix problems. For a crash you can't reproduce yourself, it makes a lot of sense to provide a test patch for the reporter to test, so you know for sure this fixes the problem. I attached such a patch, the reporter promised to test it soon, and of course I didn't set any maintainer-approval flag on it. Now, this is committed nevertheless. By someone insisting maintainer-feedback+ would mean approval of a patch, which it doesn't. For this, plase also refer to <https://wiki.freebsd.org/Bugzilla/DosAndDonts>: | DON'T use maintainer-feedback flag to declare approval of a patch. (DO | use the maintainer-approval flag) The commit *might* be correct, this patch *might* fix the problem. But I really don't want it committed before I can be sure. As a maintainer, I must stay in control of such things, and not be overruled by someone who wants to force their false asssumptions about the meaning of the flags upon me. Doing maintainer work that way is just frustrating. -- Dipl.-Inform. Felix Palmen <felix@palmen-it.de> ,.//.......... {web} http://palmen-it.de {jabber} [see email] ,//palmen-it.de {pgp public key} http://palmen-it.de/pub.txt // """"""""""" {pgp fingerprint} A891 3D55 5F2E 3A74 3965 B997 3EF2 8B0A BC02 DA2A