From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 5 10:05:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A10106564A for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:05:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B18DC8FC17 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (p5DCBFB11.dip.t-dialin.net [93.203.251.17]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p85A5u4Z054807; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:05:57 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p85A5jw2003454; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:05:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p85A5ZvN005263; Mon, 5 Sep 2011 10:05:40 GMT (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201109051005.p85A5ZvN005263@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Mark Linimon From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:18:21 CDT." <20110904231821.GC22986@lonesome.com> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:05:35 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysutils/cfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:05:59 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:32:30PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > It is not responsible to threaten to remove ports without warning > > between releases for non urgent reasons. > > portmgr has no such policy. > > Ports get deleted all the time due to various issues. I prefer to see > a 1- or 2-month warning via EXPIRATION_DATE, but that's my personal > preference, not a written policy. > > mcl Drive by ports shootings are becoming too frequent, & will get FreeBSD a bad name as immature & poorly managed A solution: Ensure a policy of expiry dates expire a release after a warning is given in a previous releases (except in emergency). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org 17th Sept, http://berklix.org/sfd/ Oct.