Editing maintained ports

[Joshua Root]

On 2015-1-8 00:09 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> Existing source files, including Portfiles, containing tabs should have them converted to spaces, and have the modeline added declaring that.
>>
>> You can do this to ports you maintain, or ports which are unmaintained. For maintained ports, whether openmaintainer or not, you should get consent from the maintainer first.
>>
>> Maintainers should proactively make this change in all their ports without needing to be asked.
> 
> OK, sure, but what if maintainers don't do the change?

Tabs or spaces in portfiles is the maintainer's choice, as documented in
HACKING.

> For those remaining hundred ports it would be nice to:
> a) clean up the whitespace
> b) upgrade the version
> c) add 5.18 5.20 to supported versions
> d) do any other clean-up, changes or testing that might be needed
> 
> What's the proper way to get this done without violating the rules? In
> particular: should one open one hundred tickets asking for permission
> to change whitespace for every single port? This is painful mostly
> because there usually need to be done multiple changes simultaneously
> (whitespace + upgrade + support for 5.18/5.20; so probably three
> patches with a request: change whitespace, upgrade on original port,
> upgrade on the port with whitespace adjustments) and opening one
> hundred tickets just multiplies the work. Let alone the fact that
> probably 90% of those requests wouldn't even be answered.

If there is no response to tickets, you can initiate the port abandoned
procedure. But you shouldn't open 100 tickets asking to change whitespace.

- Josh