Maintainer but not committer with update: Submitted a Trac ticket, now I just wait?

[Boey Maun Suang]

Hi there,

>> I am the maintainer of 'lang/slime' for which I have submitted a  
>> ticket to Trac [1], attaching it to the Milestone "Port Updates".
>>
>> Now I just wait for a committer to notice this, or should I bring  
>> it to some email address's attention?  The Wiki has the start [2]  
>> of guide to these questions, but no answers, for which it would be  
>> good to fill in even provisional answers to the procedure.
>
> ive been wondering the same thing ... sometimes they snatched up  
> right away, others might sit indefinitely, as these two appear to  
> have been doing for the last month:

The problem is that, at the moment, Trac does not automatically send  
a notification email to the assignee of a ticket, so you need to put  
the assignee's email address into the Cc: field.  I don't know  
whether or not anyone is trying to fix this problem, but it is  
documented [1].  I agree, however that it should at least be linked  
to from [2]; I'll try to do that in the next day or so.  There is  
also a macports-tickets@ mailing list that ostensibly has mail posted  
to it by Trac whenever a ticket is opened, but I've never received  
anything from it; does anyone know why this feature isn't working  
either?

On 05/05/2007, at 04:03, Matt Meissner wrote:

> Back in the day, there was a committer or two assigned to each port  
> category.  Submitters were instructed to change the owner of a bug  
> to the category committer.
>
> Portmgr, is that policy still in effect?  If so, where is the up-to- 
> date list of category owners?

The policy in [1] suggests to me that the current policy is just to  
assign bugs to macports-dev@ when there is no other obvious  
assignee.  I'm not aware of the old policy that you describe (I've  
been a user since DarwinPorts ran on 10.2, but I've only been  
contributing for a few months now), so my guess is that it has lapsed  
due to churn of contributors or similar.  I certainly think that the  
old policy has merit, but it seems to me that MacPorts needs a little  
more organisational structure among its current contributors before  
we can return to it.

Kind regards,


Maun Suang

[1] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/TracTicketing
[2] http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/MaintainingAPort

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Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname)
Email: boeyms at macports.org