New port with maintainer ports@FreeBSD.org [was: Question about maintainers]

[Scot Hetzel]

On 7/28/05, Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
> Now I've finally created ports for the sensor and server portions of
> sguild, and I'm working on the client portion.  If FreeBSD adopts the
> policy you suggest in your last paragraph, hat would me that I would *also*
> have to take over maintainence for the following ports: tcl, itcl, tk and
> iwidgets.
> 
> Can you imagine for a moment how intimidated I would have been had I had to
> take on that additional challenge?  I am not a programmer.  I've taken

You wouldn't have to take on an additional challenge if one of the
dependant ports is broken for a port your creating, what you could do
is:

  1. if MAINTAINER is not ports@, send a message to the MAINTAINER of the port
  2. Send a PR for the port with a description of the breakage and a
build.log containing the error
  3. Same as 2, but you also correct the problem in the port, and
include a Patch in the PR
  4. Same as 3, and also ask to take maintainership if MAINTAINER is ports at .
  5. Send a message to ports@ to see if anyone else had a problem with
that port, and a if they have a solution

Scot
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