What "openmaintainer" means

[Joshua Root]

On 2018-4-26 00:25 , Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 04:43:12 +1000 Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org>
> wrote:
>> On 2018-4-25 03:56 , Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>> Waiting for the maintainer to review the ticket submission
>>> someday often resulted in months of nothing happening, or years.  
>>
>> The maintainer timeout was 72 hours all along, so that's not really
>> relevant to a discussion about the limits of openmaintainer.
> 
> I think if you don't feel a clean version update falls in the limits
> of openmaintainer (that is, just bumping the version and the
> checksums), then I'm not sure what does fall under "openmaintainer"
> for you.

Minor, uncontroversial changes. Something is broken or suboptimal and
the fix is obvious. Specific examples:

* Typos
* Using eval when {*} could be used
* Rev bump needed when a dependency's ABI changed
* Add --disable-werror when the build starts failing when a new version
of clang adds a new warning
* Fix bundled libtool that thinks 10.10 is 10.1
* Build fails on a new OS version because of something like a missing
#include
* Build is missing the correct -arch flags and adding them in the right
place is simple

Some version bumps may be minor, others are definitely not. I would
suggest considering the size of upstream changes in addition to those
made to the port.

- Josh