Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:01:34 +0100 From: Shaun Amott <shaun@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Thoenen <eol1@yahoo.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Bloat Message-ID: <20061015180133.GA1519@picobyte.net> In-Reply-To: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com>
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--M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 10:53:32PM -0700, Peter Thoenen wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 A port with no official maintainer is not necessarily unmaintained or uncared for. On the contrary, many ports assigned to ports@FreeBSD.org either require no work, or are taken care of collectively by everyone else. Ports that genuinely are not looked after are scheduled for deletion. --=20 Shaun Amott // PGP: 0x6B387A9A "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFMnd9kmhdCGs4epoRAgT0AKCEBMfFSB3HgU2QyNkatX/lA2FHfQCg7WMJ ymfGfCFbF7HDak0eankuH40= =006K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO--
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