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

[Babak Farrokhi]

On 7/30/05, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>
> If the maintainer is inactive, there isn't one.  But we want to encourage
> more people to be active maintainers.
> 

Good point. How do you encourage people to be active maintainers/contributors?

Let me give you an example: I am the maintainer for www/eventum. The
current version in ports tree was 1.5.4 so I submitted the patch for
1.5.5 (ports/84297) and now version 1.6.0 is out but the patch is not
submitted despite I was the maintainer myself.
Another example: I submitted patch to update editors/vim to patchlevel
79, now this version is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution
according to CAN-2005-2368. So I submitted the patchlevel 85
(ports/84145) and also notified security-team at . But the port is still
awaiting approval.

There is really something wrong with the port management process.
People's work is not being respected. So how do I get encouraged to
submit my patches?

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Babak Farrokhi
email: babak at farrokhi.net
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