On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2013-7-3 01:31 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Christiano Fontana is the mantainer of several scientific ports (aida, >> iAIDA, clhep, geant4) and graphics/unpaper, but I didn't manage to get >> any response from him for months if not years. Geant4 has several >> tickets that have been opened 3 years ago and he never responded to >> any. >> >> A ticket for abandoned port for CLHEP has been filed 8 months ago: >> >> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36988 >> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39597 >> >> I have two questions: >> - May I take over CLHEP now? >> - Perhaps it would make sense to remove maintainer from other ports as well? > > Procedure for handling abandoned ports is documented in the Guide: > > <http://guide.macports.org/#project.update-policies.abandonment> > > So yes, you may take over maintainership of clhep
I will do it then. (I know that the port meets criteria, but I nevertheless prefer to ask first.) > and yes, the other > ports are also eligible for this procedure if they also meet the > criteria. To properly follow the procedure, a ticket is needed for the > other ports, but you can combine them into one ticket when it's the same > maintainer for all of them. One thing is not entirely clear though: can a port be abandoned and assigned to "nomaintainer"? Mojca _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
