As this is a new feature (I am still not sure what it actually does) and not a fix, is there a reason this cannot wait a couple of weeks for the maintainer to come back from vacation (this is the holiday season, almost everyone is on vacation anyway) and be included in the next upstream release ?

In D13701#286737, @mat wrote:

As this is a new feature (I am still not sure what it actually does) and not a fix, is there a reason this cannot wait a couple of weeks for the maintainer to come back from vacation (this is the holiday season, almost everyone is on vacation anyway) and be included in the next upstream release ?

I need it for the updated version of finance/dash. Otherwise, it will have this new option in it that isn't released yet, and will not look as intended.
I didn't rush him, he offered to delegate to others himself, which I did.

As for what it does, it orders sections in the options screen. Currently, it's impossible to fully control the order.

I do not think that this is really needed, I do not know what the use is exactly, but if you need to order different options sections because it is too hard to get otherwise, you have too many options, and you should drop some.

In D13701#287068, @mat wrote:

I do not think that this is really needed, I do not know what the use is exactly, but if you need to order different options sections because it is too hard to get otherwise, you have too many options, and you should drop some.

One section

In D13701#287068, @mat wrote:

I do not think that this is really needed, I do not know what the use is exactly, but if you need to order different options sections because it is too hard to get otherwise, you have too many options, and you should drop some.

There aren't too many options in my use case, only about 12, but they don't look logical when arbitrarily ordered.
Besides, this is objectively a functionality gap in the ports framework. The order shouldn't suffer just because sections happen to have different section kinds (GROUP, MULTI, RADIO, and SINGLE).

What happens on the 12th?

In D13701#290378, @tcberner wrote:

What happens on the 12th?

Maintainer timeout.

I will not approve a commit to such an essential part of the ports tree on a timeout reason.

You have to get the ok from portmgr@ and the maintainer, then you get mine :)

In D13701#290400, @tcberner wrote:

I will not approve a commit to such an essential part of the ports tree on a timeout reason.

You have to get the ok from portmgr@ and the maintainer, then you get mine :)

Ok. But how do you get ok from somebody with an e-mail address when they don't answer e-mails? :-)

To be precise, the maintainer did answer before the New Year. He said that he was on vacation and promised to answer by the Jan 8th. Now January 8 has come and gone, and I've sent him 2 followup e-mails after Jan 8th. So far, there's no answer.

The maintainer of ports-mgmt/dialog4ports promised to create a release with the patch.