On 01/15/2012 09:40 PM, Da Rock wrote:
What is the correct way to contact the maintainer for a port? Does one
contact directly? Or through a list (this one?)? Or pr?
I'm trying to contact the maintainer of the acroread ports to see if
they can put in a dependency on linux-f10-cups-libs for the ease of use
by general users, and to enable acceptance by the graphics industry niche.
I tried a direct email, but I've received no response as yet after
several days; and I'm not 100% sure I did the right thing.
Cheers
Contacting the maintainer is definitely a good thing to do.
He might be on vacation, or busy with some other aspect of life - who
knows. A few days is definitely not a long time to wait.
Another way to do it is to submit a PR with your proposed change. THe
maintainer of the port will be automatically contacted and asked to
approve the changes. If the maintainer doesn't reply after a few
months, you can ask for a maintainer timeout, and someone will then
commit it.
But I think waiting for a few more days for the maintainer to reply is a
good thing to do. I have used this strategy very successfully many
times in the past.
Stephen
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