Bacula has no maintainer?
Hello all - I noticed something kind of odd today. The Bacula port has no maintainer: $ port info bacula
bacula 1.38.11, Revision 1, sysutils/bacula (Variants: darwin_8) http://www.bacula.org/
Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
Library Dependencies: zlib, sqlite3, openssl, libiconv, gettext Platforms: darwin Maintainers: nomaintainer@macports.org
This is kind of a bummer because it looks like Bacula got a major version upgrade in March to 2.0.3 I wonder who started the Bacula Mac (darwin?) Port? Best regards, T.M.
On May 6, 2007, at 02:06, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
I noticed something kind of odd today. The Bacula port has no maintainer:
It's not that odd. Over 2000 of our not-quite-4000 ports currently have no maintainer. [1]
This is kind of a bummer because it looks like Bacula got a major version upgrade in March to 2.0.3
Yes, and the bacula port was updated to 2.0.3 on April 22, 2007. Perhaps you have not synced your ports tree since then? Use "sudo port sync" to do so, then do "port outdated" to see what you need to upgrade. Perhaps you also don't have the latest version of MacPorts (1.4.3). It was released April 17, 2007. To get it, run "sudo port selfupdate". selfupdate includes sync, so it's not necessary to run sync separately.
I wonder who started the Bacula Mac (darwin?) Port?
No need to wonder: the entire history is available in the repository browser: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/log/trunk/dports/ sysutils/bacula As we see, the port has never had a maintainer. But it was created by mww and has been updated mostly by him ever since. If you're interested in the bacula software, you could also consider becoming its maintainer, since it's currently available for adoption. [1] $ port echo maintainer:nomaintainer@macports.org | wc -l 2126 $ port list | wc -l 3898
Hi Tabitha, On 06/05/2007, at 17:06, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
I noticed something kind of odd today. The Bacula port has no maintainer:
$ port info bacula bacula 1.38.11, Revision 1, sysutils/bacula (Variants: darwin_8)
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This is kind of a bummer because it looks like Bacula got a major version upgrade in March to 2.0.3
I wonder who started the Bacula Mac (darwin?) Port?
The Subversion log says that mww@ first added it, and he just bumped it to 2.0.3 (wait the obligatory 12 hours for PortIndex to be updated). It still has no maintainer, though, presumably because nobody who uses it actively has the time to keep track of any issues with the port. If you feel that you'd like to do so, you are more than welcome to adopt it by submitting a ticket on the MacPorts website. Kind regards, Maun Suang -- Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname) Email: boeyms@macports.org
Thank you Maun Suang and Ryan Schmidt with the updates regarding Bacula and how its not an uncommon occurrence to have a MacPort that has no maintainer listed. I need to ask my boss first before I could commit to adopting Bacula as a new maintainer (believe it or not, while the company I work for is quite liberal and allows we little employees to work a small percentage of our time on open source projects, our employment contract specifically states that we have to clear permission from the company first before we can indulge in an open source project). Much thanks, -Tabitha P.S. Thanks also for the reminder that the Bacula port was updated to version 2.0.3. I'm sorry I had missed that as I had forgotten that one can check the subversion repository to see if there have been any updates. On 5/5/07, Boey Maun Suang <boeyms@macports.org> wrote:
Hi Tabitha,
On 06/05/2007, at 17:06, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
I noticed something kind of odd today. The Bacula port has no maintainer:
$ port info bacula bacula 1.38.11, Revision 1, sysutils/bacula (Variants: darwin_8)
...
This is kind of a bummer because it looks like Bacula got a major version upgrade in March to 2.0.3
I wonder who started the Bacula Mac (darwin?) Port?
The Subversion log says that mww@ first added it, and he just bumped it to 2.0.3 (wait the obligatory 12 hours for PortIndex to be updated). It still has no maintainer, though, presumably because nobody who uses it actively has the time to keep track of any issues with the port. If you feel that you'd like to do so, you are more than welcome to adopt it by submitting a ticket on the MacPorts website.
Kind regards,
Maun Suang
-- Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname) Email: boeyms@macports.org
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Boey Maun Suang
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Ryan Schmidt
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Tabitha McNerney