Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:32:34 +0200 From: Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 4dd1ae7e79b4 - main - www/awffull: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2023-09-30 Message-ID: <07f8bb9101a96df4289b12bb94cbd282@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <ZLUEbyybuQ1Qd9oK@FreeBSD.org> References: <202307162022.36GKMrdt060736@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <CAFDf7U%2BC1oZWKZ=eeK-Wwt1G0it2pUE8%2BLOokaZB0c3YNGTD7g@mail.gmail.com> <ZLUEbyybuQ1Qd9oK@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2023-07-17 11:05, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 10:16:57PM +0100, Nuno Teixeira wrote: >> Hello Daniel, >> >> Is there any policy to protect "classic" ports from deletion? >> >> games/cursive is a good example with no upstream alive, just an >> archive. >> I believe that there is more examples that follow this situation. > > This topic is brought up from time to time; I'm also against removing > non-broken (buildable, working) ports, but the official position seems > to be "Ports Collection is not a software museum". :-/ > > If you enjoy some particular abandonware port(s), the best way to > prevent > their removal is to take maintainership (so if they break, pkg-fallout@ > will notify you) and use them on the regular basis (so it they build, > but > stop working, you'd also know quickly). > > ./danfe Hi, I do try to do some evaulation before deprecating ports. * Is upstream still active or at least was somewhat recently? * Fetchable? * Keeps up with todays standards/good practice? * Maintained and/or at least historically maintained within a reasonable of time? By that I mean proactive maintenance not drive-by/last minute fixes. * Do we have alternatives in tree? If there's a maintainer a PR is submitted and the regular 2 weeks timeout applies before any changes are committed. Best regards, Daniel
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