Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:41:48 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: Oliver Lehmann <oliver@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, 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: <6eerl24jwxveqvubprpe5hghk4v3xjfqhymwoxfgkwjzelzic7@sm2m7koledme> In-Reply-To: <20231013113806.Horde.kQ2v4Cct4l8wkc-cTB1ZRDX@avocado.salatschuessel.net> References: <202310121741.39CHfwg4021895@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <ZSiytgigvFMKavE3@FreeBSD.org> <20231013113806.Horde.kQ2v4Cct4l8wkc-cTB1ZRDX@avocado.salatschuessel.net>
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 11:38:06AM +0000, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > 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. No this commit should not be revert, the deprecation is a good way to notify whoever is interested in maintaining those because they find it useful, if noone step up, then it will be removed, which is not a big deal, it is easy to revive if needed. Bapt
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