Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:58:33 -0700 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: milki <milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Cc: ruby@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: making Ruby 1.9 default Message-ID: <20110316205833.6b256cfb.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110317023136.GN32667@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <1300272269.1973.16.camel@localhost> <C9A64EB6.1DFF2%freebsdlists-ruby@chillibear.com> <20110316160048.GM32667@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20110316134220.d92eb20d.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20110317023136.GN32667@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:31:36 -0700 milki <milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu> 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 consensus of committers that portupgrade is no longer maintained and 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
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