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From: "C Hutchinson" <portmaster@bsdforge.com>
Subject: Re: ports/188127: net/wackamole : deprecate
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The following reply was made to PR ports/188127; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "C Hutchinson" <portmaster@bsdforge.com>
To: rene@freebsd.org, linimon@lonesome.com
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/188127: net/wackamole : deprecate
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:47:44 -0700 (PDT)

 > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:00:01AM +0000, C Hutchinson wrote:
 > > From: "C Hutchinson" <portmaster@bsdforge.com>
 > >
 > > Is gnats broken? Is there any way to get the pr(1) system to find
 > > potential references before making a final call?
 >
 > GNATS doesn't really have a concept of "port".  That makes it easy for
 > committers to overlook a particular PR.
 
 Indeed. IMHO that seems like overhead the already over-burdened committers
 could do without. I mean no offense. I'm just thinking; there must be a
 better way, for all concerned. :)
 
 I'll try to set aside some time, and see if I can conceive a more
 efficient solution, and make a POC (proof of concept) for review.
 
 >
 > In theory we ask committers to make sure there is not an existing PR
 > for a port, before deleting it.
 >
 > You might find portsmon (http://portsmon.freebsd.org) useful for this
 > task.  e.g. see
 >
 > http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=www&portname=apache24 .
 
 Thank you. Yes, That's pretty much how I determined as much as I did
 for net/spread (ports/188853).
 
 >
 > mcl
 
 Thank you, Mark, and sorry for bouncing your mail (unintended). Your
 MX has been white-listed. :)
 
 --Chris