From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Sep 29 19:07:49 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE8DC02649 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:07:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) (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 AFB331BD; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:07:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAF4428476; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:07:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from illbsd.quip.test (ip-86-49-16-209.net.upcbroadband.cz [86.49.16.209]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 058DF28470; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:07:38 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Google Code as an upstream is gone To: Christian Weisgerber , Mathieu Arnold Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <2047d7fd-1849-6008-5be1-5fb3d1aa0661@FreeBSD.org> <3e59578a-8556-111a-f3d4-0e641a50043e@FreeBSD.org> <20160929165700.GA33046@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Message-ID: <57ED667A.8080509@quip.cz> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:07:38 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0 SeaMonkey/2.39 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160929165700.GA33046@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:07:50 -0000 Christian Weisgerber wrote on 09/29/2016 18:57: > Mathieu Arnold: > >> If the software has not been moved to some other place, (it takes about >> 30 seconds to click the automatic migration to github thing, and it is >> usually done within the hour,) since march 2015, it is most likely >> abandoned and should not be kept in the ports tree. > > That's a bold new policy. > > In the past, if the upstream was gone and the maintainer judged the > software still useful (at their discretion, not based on a cut-off > date), they would even fall back to providing the distfile at > people.freebsd.org. I don't think it is good to remove ports just because source was not updated for some time. There are ports useful even 10 years after last update. Namely pnm2ppa is really old piece of code. It was removed from ports tree because there was not maintainer. So I must become a maintainer and now the port is alive again. I think there should not be policy to remove ports if they have maintainer or some user using them if only thing which should be done is to change SRC url. Miroslav Lachman