[23415] trunk/dports/archivers/zlib/Portfile

[Landon Fuller]

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On Mar 31, 2007, at 11:56 AM, markd at macports.org wrote:

> Eric Hall <opendarwin.org at darkart.com> 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.

I agree that the 72 hour rule is stifling when you've got a small bug  
to fix, or a simple version bump. I don't think it's entirely  
inappropriate for large changes, though.

-landonf
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