Announcement: special new maintainer addresses

[Paul Guyot]

Le 4 oct. 06 à 23:53, James Berry a écrit :

> As described here <http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/ 
> SpecialMaintainerAddresses>, we have created two new email  
> addresses to replace the special 'darwinports at opendarwin.org' that  
> was previously in use.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions about this. Thanks to  
> kvv for getting these addresses set up.

I'm not convinced we need two maintainer addresses. In fact, I think  
we should simply clarify the role of maintainers to avoid having  
these different states (I'm maintaining a port and I don't tolerate  
any change I don't control, I'm maintaining but I don't care, No one  
maintains).

But anyway.

There is another problem related to bug tracking and port update that  
isn't fixed by these addresses. It's when there is a patch authored  
or approved by the port maintainer on the bug tracking system, but  
the maintainer doesn't have the commit bit to commit it.

We could set up a new address for this use. Maintainers would just  
have to assign those bugs to this address so anyone with the commit  
bit and some time could quickly find such cases in the list of open  
bugs and review and commit the changes.

Paul
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