Morning/Afternoon/Evening All, I was going to raise a ticket, but thought I'd start by email an email 1st. I would like to advocate tweaking what a active maintainer means? Something like a time limit on submitted or accepting patches.
I've raised several tickets since, installing and then participating with mac ports, my view was I can't complain if i don't participate. The issues I've encountered have been around maintainers moving on, changing email address, no longer interested in maintaining, etc etc etc. This has been annoying when I was trying to fix defects or upgrade to a newer minor or build version number. I realize that everyone participates due to different reasons and using their own time, everyone might have peaks and troughs in their availability to participate. Just wanted to gauge peoples views upon this, not suggesting something like 24 hrs, 1 week, 1 month... Maybe adding something like 6 months you need to log in, to a new maintainers specific area where they can see what they are a maintainer for, what they want to keep being a maintainer for and when they would like to switch to either have openmaintainer or nomaintainer responsible. Then say after 9 months it automatically switches to nomaintainer. John _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
