Eric Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 11:32 AM -0800 wrote: > There was a rule about bugs being free for anyone to fix/patch/commit >after notifying the port maintainer and a 72 hour timeout. > Has that been removed, or just lost to the fog of time? > Is that a rule that people are comfortable with?
I'm comfortable with it, but the problem is that I think we have a large number of maintainers listed who are no longer maintaining. So while I'm comfortable with the rule above, and it is easy enough to remember, if I see 5 old bugs that I could fix in 15 minutes and I have time right now but I think the probability of any response from a maintainer (let alone a fast one) is very low, then will the community (and myself) be better served by sending out emails from trac and waiting on responses and tracking all that stuff, or just fixing them? If it is a complex or critial port, then I'll not touch it, but if it is a lesser used broken port and/or a minor update then I might. If I know the maintainer is responsive then I'll definitely cc in trac and not worry about it after that. So I think the key detail is not the rule above, but that even responsive maintainers may not be able to respond in 72 hours and so few formally drop maintainership when they stop maintaining that our whole framework of rules about committing is shaky if taken too seriously. Mark _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
