Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:32:57 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: "David E. Thiel" <lx@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dead projects in ports tree Message-ID: <200903021432.57825.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090302223600.GD29616@redundancy.redundancy.org> References: <7d6fde3d0902281509v6a98521as618421daf52b3abe@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0902281605u2a251513q44ccfc0c8226c9fd@mail.gmail.com> <20090302223600.GD29616@redundancy.redundancy.org>
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On Monday 02 March 2009 13:36:38 David E. Thiel wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:05:56PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years; no > > > releases in the past 3 years > > > > > > =A0 =A0I'll continue posting more items to this thread as I find them= =2E.. > > > Thanks, > > > -Garrett > > > > xmms looks completely dead now. Can someone confirm or deny this fact? > > While I'm in favor of removing useless ports, there are several projects > which are simply "done", and lack of development doesn't mean they're > obsolete or useless. The logic above would seem to suggest we should > remove qmail too. I would like to hear what people feel the best method > for getting rid of unused and irrelevant ports, though -- bump > portrevision and mark BROKEN for a few months? This opens up a huge can of worms. One user's favorite port is another user= 's=20 crap. The general rule of thumb is if the port is unmaintained and abandonw= are=20 (website gone, not fetchable etc) then it should be marked DEPRECATED with = a=20 date a month or so out. Most of these ports are also mirrored by FreeBSD if= =20 they aren't restricted. Any port that has been broken for >6 months are=20 usually removed. Portmgr usually handles this area and it's generally a goo= d=20 idea to contact them regarding any of these ports. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D-------------
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