From owner-svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 18:53:16 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5C574A9 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:53:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B7AD2112C for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:53:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s39IrGsg001013 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:53:16 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from bdrewery@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s39IrGGx001003 for svn-ports-all@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:53:16 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery) Received: (qmail 32459 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2014 13:53:14 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO roundcube.xk42.net) (10.10.5.5) by sweb.xzibition.com with SMTP; 9 Apr 2014 13:53:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:53:14 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery To: marino@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5000 unstaged ports [was: in head/multimedia/xmms: . files] Organization: FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <5344FF5D.8000405@marino.st> References: <201404081535.s38FZIwG078361@svn.freebsd.org> <20140409073738.GA27075@FreeBSD.org> <20140409075935.GP97416@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <5344FF5D.8000405@marino.st> Message-ID: <28a2e3c392e9cbd6141d3fb30423a79b@shatow.net> X-Sender: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.5 Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin , owner-ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev , ports-committers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 18:53:16 -0000 On 2014-04-09 03:05, John Marino wrote: > On 4/9/2014 09:59, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> >> We still have 5k packages not staged which are blockers for cross >> building for >> examples or sub packages > > A very large portion of those have @FreeBSD.org addresses listed as > MAINTAINER. I don't think it's out of line to deprecate those first, > before the unmaintained ports. > > Has a mass email gone out to every @FreeBSD.org person with at least > one > unstaged port to set a near-term deadline to get the port staged? I'm > happy to pull the trigger quickly but they should all be given a > specific "do it soon (by this date) or else" message so they have no > legs to stand on when it's complaining time. > > John We're working on a mail, announcement, blog, and timetable for all of this. We'll start spamming maintainers soon about it as well. Should have something sent out this week. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery