Dropping maintainership of my ports
Kurt Jaeger
lists at opsec.eu
Wed Apr 27 08:23:24 UTC 2011
Hi!
> > No, it's more than that. I got the distinct impression that many of the
> > committers would be unhappy if I took maintainership of some of the
> > ports I might identify as "popular", because it would interfere with
> > their plans to trim the portstree.
> Then you have misunderstood things. I don't think anybody would be
> unhappy if you (or anybody else) took maintainership of one or more of
> the currently unmaintained ports.
There are two things. Becoming a maintainer seems to be really easy.
Having one's PRs committed is a bit more difficult and sometimes
takes 4-6 weeks (I had a case recently with 155399 and 155400).
Maybe, if maintainer can "somehow easily" become ports committer,
this hurdle might be lower ?
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