Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 21:49:23 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Adam Weinberger" <adamw@adamw.org>, "Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Stefan_E=C3=9Fer?= <se@freebsd.org>, "Niclas Zeising" <zeising@freebsd.org>, "Michael Gmelin" <grembo@freebsd.org>, "FreeBSD Developers" <developers@freebsd.org>, "Tobias C. Berner" <tcberner@freebsd.org>, ports@freebsd.org, "portmgr@freebsd.org" <portmgr@freebsd.org> Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_Aggressive_ports_removal_(was:_svn_commit:_r546907_-_head/?= =?UTF-8?Q?x11-clocks/wmtime)?= Message-ID: <e826ed53-46ba-43c2-9d2b-a06e31c0e73f@www.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F34C480-63D3-48C4-9747-FDA1E5D66507@adamw.org> References: <CANCZdfpWaib-h3fVJKbrL5L5sHJQLj6UcQAcsGcH4cBtf53YRQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F34C480-63D3-48C4-9747-FDA1E5D66507@adamw.org>
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On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, at 8:50 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote: > Just a disclaimer: I=E2=80=99m speaking for myself here, not on behalf= of portmgr@. Also please keep in mind that I am perpetually, pathologic= ally optimistic. >=20 >> On Aug 29, 2020, at 18:01, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: >>=20 >>=20 >> Basically, it draws the community back in, even if it's just small wa= ys, rather than having them be a pure consumer giving nothing back. Make= it easy to adopt a port, and we'll grow our base of labor. Make it easy= to remove ports that no one can be bothered to adopt and we shrink our = workload. And we'll spend our time on the things that we know net us at = least one user who will pledge to keep it going. >=20 > This is a serious issue that we=E2=80=99ve been dealing with for a lon= g time. I=E2=80=99ve advocated very strongly for a script that automatic= ally notifies the maintainer (+/- ports@?) when a port is marked BROKEN = and/or DEPRECATED. Community notification is always a good thing, and it= opens the door for objections and discussion. Nobody has written such a= script, but I would be thrilled to help deploy such a script if someone= writes it. In the meantime, FreshPorts has a 'Watch ports I maintain' report under = 'Watch ports I maintain' re https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues/138 -- Dan Langille dan@langille.org
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