On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 19:04 +0200, Juergen Daubert wrote:
Hello CRUX maintainers,
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That said, we need coaches for the 'ports' team as well as for the 'core' team. CRUX maintainers, please submit your nominations :-).
I'd like to nominate Tilman for the ports-team leader role. As we have nominations for all teams now, either take the chance to vote or come up with other nominations, please ;-)
+0 (as I'm not a maintainer) Tilman is probably one of the maintainers I've had to interact with the most, and every time he has come to a nice solution. The first time was when I found it weird that X11R7 installed in /usr/X11R6 - he agreed and changed all the ports to install in /usr. This shows that he's not afraid to change stuff (even if it requires some amount of work) if it makes sense. Another time I missed man-pages for git - after upstream rejected my request to include pre-formatted man-pages in their tarballs (they use asciidoc which makes an awful dependency chain), Tilman made a patch to build seperate tarballs for man-pages and html docs on "make dist" which upstream then accepted. I think this shows what a wonderful bridge Tilman is between CRUX users and annoying upstream developers.