Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:46:35 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion Message-ID: <53E3AD6B.7030706@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <1407427678.3895.164.camel@btw.pki2.com> References: <201408070829.s778Tgbl017745@portsmon.freebsd.org> <1407425678.3895.159.camel@btw.pki2.com> <20140807153648.GO2644@home.opsec.eu> <1407427678.3895.164.camel@btw.pki2.com>
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Am 07.08.2014 um 18:07 schrieb Dennis Glatting: > On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 17:36 +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >> Hi! >> >>> On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 08:29 +0000, linimon@FreeBSD.org wrote: >>>> portname: net-mgmt/cacti >>>> description: Web-driven graphing interface for RRDTool >>>> maintainer: ports@FreeBSD.org >>>> deprecated because: Not staged. See >> >>> Deleting Cacti would be a problem. >> >> Can you submit a patch ? >> > > Is it not being maintained? No. Setting MAINTAINER=ports@FreeBSD.org is the placeholder for unmaintained ports. > I hate this tool (Cacti) but I have to support it for a client. If that > means taking over maintenance, then I offer to do so. However, I am not > a port maintainer, although I have done some local stuff, so there is a > learning curve. A mentor would help. We have the "Porter's Handbook" which is a reasonable starting point, and we have the ports mailing list here for support - just toss your questions here. Regarding staging in particular, we also have <https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir>. > Ditto www/squid where the latest rev is 3.5 but ports is 3.3. I am > running a patched 3.4. The formalities for a ports maintainer are minimal, your e-mail would already be sufficient. Make a copy of the original cacti directory, change it until you think it's good, then make a diff ("diff -Nur /old/directory /new/directory") and upload it somewhere, or if you think it's already good to go, file it to our bugzilla and mention the bug ID here, mentioning you made a patch to make it support staging to prevent expiry.
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