From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 12:44:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2056106564A; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:44:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gahr@gahr.no-ip.org) Received: from cpanel05.rubas-s05.net (cpanel05.rubas-s05.net [195.182.222.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C6A8FC08; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:44:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 175-3.192-178.cust.bluewin.ch ([178.192.3.175] helo=gahr.no-ip.org) by cpanel05.rubas-s05.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SHaRG-0006n7-9h; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:44:50 +0200 Received: by gahr.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 52BE94505F; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:44:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:44:50 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti To: araujo@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20120410124449.GB73185@gahrfit.gahr.ch> References: <201204092351.q39Npi6F025202@repoman.freebsd.org> <20120410091537.GK98668@gahrfit.gahr.ch> <20120410114537.GL17460@culot.org> <20120410115630.GB2456@lonesome.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: 0x9571F78E X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1203 92B5 3919 AF84 9B97 28D6 C0C2 6A98 9571 F78E User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel05.rubas-s05.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - gahr.no-ip.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: bapt@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Frederic Culot , cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon 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 ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gahr@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:44:52 -0000 --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 >=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--