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Date:      Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:30:03 -0800
From:      Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade fails to run or do anything
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=1SW7ZbCDxM0Yc60RexQf6TnAtub0cy=aG3Ss_@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101107151251.37d2f745@scorpio>
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On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:12, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> wrote:
> Really! When did "ruby@FreeBSD.org" drop the port? If he is not
> actively maintaining the port then perhaps he should inform the proper
> authority.

"He" is a mailing list.

ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade/Makefile
Revision 1.256
Tue Jul 21 13:12:15 2009 PDT (15 months, 2 weeks ago) by sem
Log:
- Drop maintainership to ruby@

Beyond this point virtually no development has happened. The
sourceforge project hasn't been updated since around that time and
there are open PRs over two years old. Unfortuantely, FreeBSD has a
lot of these niche mailing lists that virtually nobody reads but have
PRs auto-assigned to them, effectively acting as a black hole.
freebsd-rc is one of the worst offenders - other than Doug Barton,
there don't seem to be any developers involved there and it has a
massive buildup of unreviewed patches.

So I would say portupgrade is unmaintained and thus encourage people
to move to portmaster.

-- 
Rob Farmer



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