From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 15 18:02:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2BC516A407 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:02:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shaun@FreeBSD.org) Received: from dione.picobyte.net (host-212-158-207-124.bulldogdsl.com [212.158.207.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2880443D68 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:02:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shaun@FreeBSD.org) Received: from charon.picobyte.net (charon.picobyte.net [IPv6:2001:4bd0:201e::fe03]) by dione.picobyte.net (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:02:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:01:34 +0100 From: Shaun Amott To: Peter Thoenen Message-ID: <20061015180133.GA1519@picobyte.net> References: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 (FreeBSD i386) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Bloat 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: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:02:13 -0000 --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--