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

[Blair Zajac]

On Mar 31, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Landon Fuller wrote:

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

I've been using the rule that I'll wait 72 hours for my first bug/ 
patch to be acted upon, but if I have follow up ones on the same  
Portfile and there was never a response to the first report, than any  
successive ones I'll commit immediately.

Regards,
Blair

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