[MacPorts] #15564: MacPorts DB has outdated maintainer information

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Thu Jul 17 09:13:55 PDT 2008


#15564: MacPorts DB has outdated maintainer information
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  Reporter:  ryandesign at macports.org  |       Owner:  digx at macports.org      
      Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new                    
  Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:  Website & Documentation
 Component:  website                  |     Version:                         
Resolution:                           |    Keywords:                         
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Changes (by jberry at macports.org):

  * owner:  jmpp at macports.org => digx at macports.org

Comment:

 I can see how this is happening. We actually maintain separate maintainer
 information for a "port" from any submitted portpkgs. When a new portpkg
 is submitted where there was no previous information for a port, we set
 the maintainer. Otherwise, the port maintainer is never set.

 This is a policy issue: the general idea behind mpwa is that anybody can
 submit a portpkg for a port; we don't want to blindly update the port from
 the latest portpkg submission. Once we have authentication working, we can
 actually implement support for setting the maintainer of a port, who will
 then receive special status.

 We have a gsoc student working on mpwa; hopefully he can get to this
 issue. I'm assigning this bug to Rick.

 Thanks for the report.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15564#comment:2>
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