Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:19:17 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: eol1@yahoo.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Bloat Message-ID: <45322745.9090101@brooknet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com>
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Peter Thoenen wrote: > A couple months ago somebody posted a heads up on this list from the > FreeBSD Ports Team about ports bloat and the massive influx of new > software along with all the unmaintained ports. Has the port team ever > thought about: > > A) Making a delete port pr request. This way port maintainers INSTEAD > of marking 'transfer ownership to ports@freebsd.org' and hoping > somebody takes it over one day could actually just delete ports they no > longer wish to maintain. There should be some sort of WARN marking > mechanism though (valid for X months (maybe 6)) that notifies any new > user (or current via a portupgrade and EPOCH bumb) that this port is no > longer maintained and scheduled for deletion unless one of them takes > over maitainership by DATE. > You can do this right now: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/dads-deprecated.html Committers will regularly sweep through expired ports and remove them. > B) In line with A, has anybody thought about just marking ALL > ports@freebsd.org as scheduled for deletion on X date. Thousands of > people are using these ports, you can't tell me if they were actually > scheduled to be deleted from the tree at least one of the users > wouldn't take over maintainership. > That's a fairly drastic action, and it would cause a massive amount of work. People know we have unmaintained ports - they can submit updates if they wish. Pruning out obsolete ports is useful too, but it requires motivation apart from an interest in just a single port.
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