Am 29.04.2010 um 09:26 schrieb Ryan Schmidt: > Sorry about the delay. I added the port. Thanks!
>> I would also volunteer for maintenance of this port and mscgen, >> the latter apparently has been abandoned by landonf. > > While true that Landon hasn't been committing many changes to MacPorts > lately, note that he is one of the founders of MacPorts, so we should give > him the benefit of the doubt. > > Why do you believe mscgen has been abandoned? It's at version 0.17 which its > homepage says is the latest, and there are no open tickets filed against it. > Is it not working for you? If so, please discuss it here or file a bug report. The bump to 0.17 (from 0.13: 27/10/2008 according to mscgen's changelog) was initiated by me, and the maintainer timed out: See ticket 23962 Being new to macports, wanting to know what to do about the time(out) (and because my first patch was committed/accepted extremely quickly in about a day), I then randomly picked about eight trac tickets which landonf is/was assigned to and - to my memory - nearly all of them were resolved/fixed in a way similar to the mscgen one. Thus, I concluded that landonf does not actively maintain this and maybe other port(s). Just for curiosity: Does trac provide a statistics page where you can get these and similar numbers? Being new I'm not the right one to discuss landon's merits or current activities. I can also go the normal trac way and send in patches for mscgen when I note that a new version is out. >> (Don't really know yet if being a maintainer is possible without commit >> rights.) > Yes, it is; in fact all port maintainers start out without commit rights. As > explained on the page about getting commit access, you need to first be > involved with the project and preferably maintain several ports before you > can be considered for commit access. > > http://guide.macports.org/chunked/project.membership.html OK, thanks for the hint! Regards Titus _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
