Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:52:00 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <mandree@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, ports-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/cad/admesh Makefile Message-ID: <4E47EF20.8000409@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110814030033.GA80255@FreeBSD.org> References: <201108020942.p729g1Ti068765@repoman.freebsd.org> <20110811180338.GB88978@hades.panopticon> <CADLo839VotWbi209%2BeR3LAuQ4HqC-LSGY4avcUFXHat=HjsrKg@mail.gmail.com> <20110812093328.GE85247@hades.panopticon> <b0535f6d53bb546b54d85797ec66cf0b@etoilebsd.net> <20110812101133.GF85247@hades.panopticon> <4E4584EA.7090306@FreeBSD.org> <20110813133717.GA38385@hades.panopticon> <4E469837.1030903@FreeBSD.org> <20110813172040.GC38385@hades.panopticon> <20110814030033.GA80255@FreeBSD.org>
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Am 14.08.2011 05:00, schrieb Alexey Dokuchaev: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 09:20:40PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: >> * Matthias Andree (mandree@FreeBSD.org) wrote: >>> Possibly we should always mark ports for removal for three months after >>> the point in time when the maintainer gets reset to ports@. >> >> Nice. Well that'll only result in two processes: more and more ports >> will have maintainers reset and then removed, and remaining maintainers >> will take more and more ports beyond their ability to maintain them, >> both will lead to collapse. Is this also not undesirable? > > Big +1 for Dmitry here; ports@ is perfectly fine maintainer entity, much > easier to work with, and often receives more and better care than many of > seemingly "properly" maintained ports. Assuming that were true, how else do we make sure not to let rotten code linger in the ports tree?
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