A compromise here could be, instead of getting rid of openmaintainer entirely, or keeping it opt-in like it currently is, we could make it opt-out instead. There are two ways we could do this:
1. When committing new ports submitted by users without commit access, make it a policy to automatically add "openmaintainer" for them unless they specifically request otherwise, or: 2. Get rid of the openmaintainer pseudo-maintainername entirely, and replace it with a new pseudo-maintainername that would be equivalent to what is currently signified by leaving out the "openmaintainer" pseudo-maintainername. I am not sure what we would call this replacement though... On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote: > On Jul 24, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Sean Farley <s...@macports.org> wrote: > > > > Why not drop 'openmaintainer' and amend the community policy to have > > every port be what we now call 'openmaintainer'? Furthermore, we could > > set up a way for the listed port authors to be emailed when a port with > > their name on it has changed. > > I, for one, appreciate the ability to specify which ports I don't care if > people apply patches to vs. ports where I'm very careful about > updating/keeping things from breaking. > > Ultimately, I'm not willing to provide active support for something that > lots of other people are going to (potentially) be updating (and, in > general, I prefer to get prior notice of a possible change before it hits > the repo). > > -- > Daniel J. Luke > +========================================================+ > | *---------------- dl...@geeklair.net ----------------* | > | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | > +========================================================+ > | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | > | reflect the opinions of my employer. | > +========================================================+ > > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev >
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