r96828 [webkit-gtk: Add mesa dependency (#35737)]

[Ryan Stonecipher]

Lawrence,
The only part of the guide which could be used as an excuse for
committing that change would be "A critical port is broken that
affects many users".

Of the ports listed by running 'port echo depends:webkit-gtk' the only
big deal I could see was gimp2.
The only users who would have been left in limbo would be those
installing webkit-gtk dependents for the first time after r96828.
Ticket #35737 could have sat for longer than 19 hours while the
maintainer, who chose to take exclusive control of webkit-gtk, may
have been able to begin researching (or letting users submit) an
appropriate solution.

The fix which was committed well before the 72 hour maintainer timeout
period seems to have been the wrong solution for the problem.
Perhaps a patch could be added to the ticket and a request sent to
macports-dev and/or portmgr for permission before jumping to the
conclusion that "A critical port is broken that affects many users."

Ryan Stonecipher


On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Lawrence Velázquez
<larry.velazquez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 19, 2012, at 2:04 p.m., Ryan Stonecipher wrote:
>
>> When a port has a single maintainer, when is it acceptable to commit a
>> quick/obvious change to fix a bug?
>
> http://guide.macports.org/#project.update-policies
>
> vq
>