Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:44:50 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> To: araujo@FreeBSD.org Cc: bapt@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Frederic Culot <culot@freebsd.org>, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/games/8kingdoms Makefile ports/misc/airoflash Makefile ports/graphics/autopano-sift Makefile ports/x11/avant-window-navigator-xfce4 Makefile ports/lang/boo Makefile ports/x11/cl-clx-sbcl Makefile ports/palm/coldsync ... Message-ID: <20120410124449.GB73185@gahrfit.gahr.ch> In-Reply-To: <CAOfEmZgaagMqBq_690E9a4yo=vJ6Lnet-PAOrHi6c8e2xpfrTA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201204092351.q39Npi6F025202@repoman.freebsd.org> <20120410091537.GK98668@gahrfit.gahr.ch> <20120410114537.GL17460@culot.org> <20120410115630.GB2456@lonesome.com> <CAOfEmZgaagMqBq_690E9a4yo=vJ6Lnet-PAOrHi6c8e2xpfrTA@mail.gmail.com>
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--MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2012-Apr-10, 09:32, Marcelo Araujo wrote: > 2012/4/10 Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> >=20 > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:45:38PM +0200, Frederic Culot wrote: > > > To conciliate such a necessary action without hurting the feelings of > > those > > > maintainers who despite their work could not update the state of their > > port in a > > > timely manner, maybe it would be good to be more verbose in the log of > > such > > > commits. Inspired by linimon's emails, something like the following > > could be > > > added: > > > > I do get some responses from maintainers to those emails, and (except > > in the cases where the email gets stuck in my mbox) I honor their reque= sts > > for an extension. OTOH in general I get personal replies and not repli= es > > to the list, so people aren't seeing that interaction in public. > > > > From my standpoint, by the time something has been broken for 6 months, > > the maintainer will have already gotten multiple emails from portsmon. > > So, I'm going to have to say I'm a little frustrated if I need to send > > another round of mail even on top of that. > > > > > I strongly agree with the bapt's action to set some ports that are often > broken to deprecated or even some of them that are broken for a long time > to deprecated. >=20 > There is nothing more frustrating than try to install a port an it doesn't > fetch or doesn't build. I might agree on that. But how is a DEPRECATED port better than a BROKEN one in this regard? --=20 Pietro Cerutti The FreeBSD Project gahr@FreeBSD.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk+EK0EACgkQwMJqmJVx946M1gCgubu6IJLJpEh0eLYGZzgYN1FF UdIAn30H+0XciAoBmgDTz8BJ+5vraQZg =Hn2u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ--
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