Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:49:53 -0500 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r422114 - head/misc/fortune_strfile Message-ID: <7829a82e-7f83-33d1-54b5-fca53d072f4f@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <20160914164020.GD23634@fc.opsec.eu> References: <201609140545.u8E5jeBH058686@repo.freebsd.org> <eb09770a-b234-f889-2f2c-d6127ab76cc7@FreeBSD.org> <40537f68-1d2b-194c-55d5-b133d743ed3e@marino.st> <20160914123128.GA32707@lonesome.com> <20160914164020.GD23634@fc.opsec.eu>
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On 9/14/2016 11:40, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > >> My own opinion is that 4814 is way too many. And, I don't buy the >> argument that some have made that "unmaintained ports are better >> maintained than some maintained ports". > > We have the data to go from opinion to knowledge by analyzing > the commit logs etc. Analyzing it is difficult, but maybe it helps > to find out where we stand. I don't think that's necessary to get the actual numbers. While it's clearly true that some unmaintained ports (aka maintained by ports@FreeBSD.org) are better maintained than a significant number of maintained ports, I think most people would agree having a maintainer is the best situation. In this particular case: 1) I don't maintain any fortune ports 2) I don't use any fortune ports 3) I don't care if all the fortune ports are deleted 4) The port is about as trivial as they come. I was only fixing a problem that I identified that should have been fixed long before. If there was a rule that said I had to maintain the port for 1-week or 1-month or even 6-months, then I'm just dropping the port the next day after the expiration period. It's better to give somebody that actually does care a chance to adopt it (the most likely being one of the fortune port maintainers). Finally, most of the games ports are intentionally unmaintained. Since strfile has its origin in games, I really didn't see a distinction with fortune_strfile and any of those games. John --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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