drop multimedia@ maintainership on some ports

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 20 17:35:52 UTC 2019


On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 05:05:18PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 04:30:31PM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:12:25 +0100 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org>
> > wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 02:44:34PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 01:31:11PM +0100, Jan Beich wrote:
> > >>> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > >>>> I am planning to drop maintainership of some ports actually maintained by
> > >>>> multimedia@ to ports@ in order to give a chance to anyone to jump on it and
> > >>>> maintain them directly if needed.
> > >>> 
> > >>> Hmm, I had the opposite reaction from another portmgr@ peer.
> > >>> 
> > >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2018-October/189060.html
> > >> 
> > >> Interesting I bet we do need to have a portmgr discussion here.
> > > 
> > > After discussing with mat we are actually aligned, what mat is describing there
> > > is the default policy for when we do reset maintainership, as it will start
> > > becoming complicated if there was specific policy. But then the team itself can
> > > decide on the fact to actually maintain those or not.
> > 
> > Can you review gnome@ ports as well while you're at it? :)  They
> > maintain over 500 ports many of which aren't gnome related and almost
> > half are out of date according to portscout.freebsd.org.
> 
> I can do that for sure!
> 
Do you have a initial list to start working on?

Bapt
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