Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:08:30 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why delete KDE3 ports? Message-ID: <50EAE4EE.20609@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <50EAE40E.5090300@aldan.algebra.com> References: <mailman.202.1357547625.2166.freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> <50EADA33.9010308@aldan.algebra.com> <50EADEFA.2070201@marino.st> <CA%2B7WWSeUb15S_8XRoSiQy4-4fZUVH%2B0Gg914abpJdwzFCp_QEg@mail.gmail.com> <50EAE40E.5090300@aldan.algebra.com>
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On 1/7/2013 16:04, Mikhail T. wrote: > On 07.01.2013 09:54, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> Are you willing to step up as the maintainer of the KDE3 ports? Or >> anyone else reading this? The situation with ports like KDE3 is that >> they are lots of work to keep up in shape and if no one wants to >> maintain them they succumb to what is called "bitrot" very quickly >> when something changes in dependent ports or in the base system. > When/if that happens, we can renew the conversation. For the time being > there are no build errors. I agree with this. Simple bitrot can be patched pretty quickly even w/o a maintainer and if nobody is willing to do that then sure, kill it. FYI I already maintain a number of ports and I intend to add more Ada ports in the future, so I can't pick up KDE3 myself. John
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