From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 18:16:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC28106564A for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:16:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D928FC0A for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxc34 with SMTP id 34so2019901vxc.13 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:16:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fAxdy29OKnD6nQ+jPJW4lZvbIFViOtHpp2KRq8Ei+Ww=; b=Q6P3UE3Uo3sqi38lgmjond6rFPETUw5951qQm1qmTbyw8IAY3go91yyzrsRoWL1HPf 6vsm7ATU5zpDQXjmIRe/4kv4gWW7+LWYxuYQUtXNwTjte70e6Qa4xBlFKbnNNj7hDoQJ v+TbHcy9tkajI3bILdcZtOUXxqwU3b+n0mS5o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DXCpHv67z9ocvmbDLrnn3pmfDrD+kKGgXiTV7MGrpJ98md8oGHaPklfnSAGI5rDkst Lt1K60ReqibdAgdx39QraFN1racj0YBUY5+s7ZprAiFOduFgm4dzn4UWUUHiLLvEIPk1 w1cmLgqmunCZg4B5UDPq37iHXhn4lZGwxn6lg= Received: by 10.52.179.100 with SMTP id df4mr3738194vdc.220.1303928214076; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:16:54 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.181.202 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:16:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DB83D6E.9000800@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> <20110426024122.GA38579@comcast.net> <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net> <20110426141209.0d07bccf@seibercom.net> <20110426184315.GA2320@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <19895.13977.553973.609431@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4DB83D6E.9000800@aldan.algebra.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:16:24 -0400 Message-ID: To: "Mikhail T." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Robert Huff , Chip Camden , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: saving a few ports from death X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:16:55 -0000 > What is not broken -- just old, like =C2=A0databases/db2 or www/apache13*= , for > example -- should be left alone (until it becomes both broken and > unmaintained). And even then, the removal should not be > mass-scale/automatic... This recent sweep was neither mass scale nor automatic. 536/22816 ports is only 3.234% of all the ports. Furthermore bapt@, myself, and a few other people went through each of the categories ensuring the projects were actually dead (not necessarily that the distfile couldn't be found). Then bapt@ marked the ports *deprecated* which does not mean deleted. It was a warning that people who were interested should step up and take up the work. If after N amount of time no one does so they will be individually deleted. > Maybe, for cleanliness and neatness, we should have a separate directory > (and category): "obsolete" -- where ports can go to die peacefully. But i= t > should not be cvs' "Attic"... Who will be the ones to deal with that category, ensuring new infrastructure works, etc? The port maintainer? oh wait! cvs's Attic can be easily restored if people take up the slack. I see no reason to change this policy. --=20 Eitan Adler