From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 16:51:51 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2B4910F for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.20]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21087278B for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mandree.no-ip.org ([78.48.0.31]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M2Glc-1WPf7w3dgK-00s9TZ for ; Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:46:37 +0200 Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost6.localdomain6 [IPv6:::1]) by apollo.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A9823CE92 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 18:46:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <53E3AD6B.7030706@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:46:35 +0200 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion 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> In-Reply-To: <1407427678.3895.164.camel@btw.pki2.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:taMpzkOFVcxRgUUYyNZEioBOjR/HoHYImSvRlyfQHrZrVB6JFuD lsOud1ndT7P4g8cIcxBTRdcp4cYqOmA9Ta8jiztxGdrshX+REXW3E506VI2ajxj8wuCTv78 4VN85vQowaphnI0A+72/O7uef6FugSByfNxa5RCDhFCgWEJaZiQt7YMoNnEuQ3g8bKPUZfJ B6w2BKvgoFFVBh9VqZtig== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:51:51 -0000 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 . > 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.