From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 7 20:30:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6991065741 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfarmer@predatorlabs.net) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4658E8FC18 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:30:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg8 with SMTP id 8so4112351qwg.13 for ; Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.182.5 with SMTP id ca5mr4396014qcb.150.1289161803376; Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.189.137 with HTTP; Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:30:03 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [128.95.133.122] In-Reply-To: <20101107151251.37d2f745@scorpio> References: <0e83f79bc4b86b72841763338a63e94e@flabnapple.net> <20101107190823.14e8c517.freebsd@edvax.de> <18ca79b6ed80156a7f03123109e57adf@flabnapple.net> <20101107151251.37d2f745@scorpio> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:30:03 -0800 Message-ID: From: Rob Farmer To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: portupgrade fails to run or do anything X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:30:04 -0000 On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:12, Jerry 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