#49482: geographiclib: files missing from install ----------------------------+----------------------------- Reporter: crmoore@… | Owner: tlockhart1976@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.3.4 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: geographiclib | ----------------------------+----------------------------- Comment (by tlockhart1976@…): Replying to [comment:6 crmoore@…]:
I can help out as a co-maintainer if desired. What's involved? Well, you are doing it already. Noticing when a new version is available, updating the port to fix packaging issues or to fix breakage in the upstream distro, responding (helpfully or not) to new tickets. For this case, you would have submitted your patches and included "haspatch maintainer" in the keywords field. The powers-that-be see that and figure that you've done your homework on the patch and hours or days later the patch is magically applied to the MacPorts repo and the ticket gets signed off as "closed". If you are not a maintainer, you might have the experience you just had: the maintainer kind-of doesn't know much about what you are wanting to do, so the whole process kind-of stalls. As co-maintainers we have each other as a resource to work out issues and can each respond to new tickets etc. In my experience the most annoying part of being a maintainer is trying to support OS releases that you don't have and to respond to issues which Work For Me. But that is just the way it goes I think. The more maintainers the better in that regard. I've also found that if you do something "wrong" (not using the recommended style for ticket titles, not knowing The Best Way to write the port) the MacPorts uber-maintainers will give advice or jump in to fix things up. I've done several ports from scratch and taken over a few and it has been a positive experience. Now if I can just figure out how to clear some of those old Works For Me tickets...
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