From owner-freebsd-ruby@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 03:58:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ruby@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CB2106564A for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:58:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mx0.deglitch.com (cl-414.sto-01.se.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:16d8:ff00:19d::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A80858FC0A for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from orion.SpringDaemons.com (207.47.0.2.static.nextweb.net [207.47.0.2]) by mx0.deglitch.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 189A68FC2B; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:58:46 +0300 (MSK) Received: from orion (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.SpringDaemons.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DE2D5C38; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:58:33 -0700 From: Stanislav Sedov To: milki Message-Id: <20110316205833.6b256cfb.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110317023136.GN32667@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <1300272269.1973.16.camel@localhost> <20110316160048.GM32667@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20110316134220.d92eb20d.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20110317023136.GN32667@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-Mailer: carrier-pigeon Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ruby@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: making Ruby 1.9 default X-BeenThere: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Ruby discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:58:50 -0000 On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:31:36 -0700 milki mentioned: > On 13:42 Wed 16 Mar , Stanislav Sedov wrote: > > > I've been hanging out at #bsdports@efnet and I've gathered that is the > > > consensus of committers that portupgrade is no longer maintained and > > > portmaster is the preferred tool. The docs need some patching to reflect > > > this. > > > > > > > It's not true, it's officially maintained by ruby@, which for portupgrade > > was effectively mainly me for the past years. Unfortunately, I don't have > > enough resources to make significant changes there. > > Given that there are so many PRs and I emailed the official maintainer > (ruby@) with a small 2 line patch suggestion and received no feedback, > I'd say its pretty good as not maintained. Well, I just wanted to point out that officially it's maintained (at least I try to keep it working). The quality of maintainership is another question, and I agree that it's not acceptable. Unfortunately, none else stepped in to provide a mainteinership level of support after sem@ resigned. It certainly need a lot of love and care. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments