Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:38:06 +0000 From: Oliver Lehmann <oliver@freebsd.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 97d52f6d4735 - main - */*: Set an expiration date for several Worldforge libraries and schedule for removal - There has been no release for most of the libraries in the past 10 years. Message-ID: <20231013113806.Horde.kQ2v4Cct4l8wkc-cTB1ZRDX@avocado.salatschuessel.net> In-Reply-To: <ZSiytgigvFMKavE3@FreeBSD.org> References: <202310121741.39CHfwg4021895@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <ZSiytgigvFMKavE3@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi Alexey, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 05:41:58PM +0000, Oliver Lehmann wrote: >> commit 97d52f6d473533d6d53e5771c0839c160a2b92dd >> >> Set an expiration date for several Worldforge libraries and schedule >> for removal - There has been no release for most of the libraries in >> the past 10 years. >> ... > > Looking at https://github.com/worldforge, their repos are well alive and > receiving updates. Maybe we could ask them to tag releases more often > rather than removing (presumably working) ports? > > ./danfe While this might be true, most - if not all of the libs - are rather useless if none of worldforges main products like their game client Ember is not ported. It was ported once but got removed from the ports tree years ago - I fail to remember what was the issue back then. So while those libs could be kept there, they are not much of a use without any real using component anyway. If you still think its useful to keep them I can revert this commit and hand them over to ports@ because I don't intend to maintain them anymore. I don't see a real worlds benefit in doing so. We have no usage statistics of those ports of course but I doubt that anyone is using them - because what would they use them for and it shouldn't be in the ports system just to have it. It should serve a purpose. Regards, Oliver
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