From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Oct 1 08:59:05 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 8CFF6BECEFD for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2016 08:59:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC0B62E6 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2016 08:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from mandree.no-ip.org ([77.181.93.34]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MOx4J-1bsikr0Ztv-006L26 for ; Sat, 01 Oct 2016 10:53:50 +0200 Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost6.localdomain6 [IPv6:::1]) by apollo.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF7B23D855 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2016 10:53:49 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Google Code as an upstream is gone To: "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> <20160930235909.GA84903@server.rulingia.com> <9cd06059-a707-6583-79d7-fbd36bd2c977@gjunka.com> From: Matthias Andree Message-ID: <949da532-7169-d6bc-9726-f44967848493@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 10:53:49 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9cd06059-a707-6583-79d7-fbd36bd2c977@gjunka.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:dMYV4lpMtkVUs/w1ZuVXMwAiPzwjfslb1U9Zn54bD87ckRZj6SB pGmRcHHmntH9YjPgQx4/eSF6y8YFj7mnP9bK+rv/1m8V/Qx8Kc4QjX6ckE4y3yG5QvN0WhJ D6UBocinVqI/Lc1Mm91SKjYhAFHgJ2aV8QsdYpuo3VkSIvmRtuC9pfbtqHhJytgRNS54FVx 8qZGEaTza54tj+RFW+g5Q== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:fWP9WvAvVSw=:sZ45VI2nepnNiPggRoQGjC yHpnq1HBeFKH2bEdfSNS1Quwrykz2hdpGtbOG2+xhpuomjcCpdF5hk1qM7lvB3iWYSI6xrXCq YFk9Pud41fZQMGUV1djxodXW/fJI+Bew+Q+83yor5V8aornTkUx1hDgzqTpDHXI9thQNGURfQ /NErDarSqRM1+H5+GNyHRoKJhI/mLxvWm8dgoT+VPCecGWtwXK7uflVAlmfidtWFIET88CnYa z5tj767ensWXQ1keaQs1EYP8wI0sV+ADeVujSqLA+isoo6Z1TPm1Z2RJMvTuUndsCCaP/JA5S 7oScOtb35NwUNmo5IpB92KX7/0Bp0vKRMiYZ8xNcxvbcRLgZEg5kvTArBZekepnIIQEbYXMkh aZoQXDhIkxTmRPabUebvvI6eFzSZ8BNZwc3aJG5ffaWwGuFSKQDI1iWpxBfeDiebY/GyCDgmT 4ruyX0MnmmYQppT7PNMh0AN1Wpa50TyzoaXhNL6L4IIZbJSXtT7vlJOCLqQfDWnCwRF7PEAX/ zyxadzwIPCfrMwFL3PGXRqCc5HIlNHg5h/sS+T1lDaSSEGJM09T0mohrHdSTQY9yQckkfLVSG lYeBb15un07s7LFTPOksKRTEgd5RMrCc6/89J7OtIqT4EE1j6TZll3nRcHJRXeY1qiQRbh1Z/ XNhdk/aRvR8qMilzSLbhey8+eQIEjF/A3cqPsCj1HvOFYaIH2pFE2AVB/o64nO0WJLal2DpIn jQ6HWFQsxookSSeLklPfV+XmnD2ZQYR2Lh9tvpXMMS6xP3G0mUkjqac/BGjLh+gFQemvl4XR3 usFI7Tp 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: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 08:59:05 -0000 Am 01.10.2016 um 10:03 schrieb Grzegorz Junka: > The fact that some source is hosted at a provider that doesn't close > their services, like Google does (aka GitHub), doesn't make it > "maintained". Is that your definition of "maintained", that the "the > code could be updated if needed"? If yes, then I am happy to upload > all "unmaintained" sources to my GitHub account where you can fork the > repository for free and update "if needed".=20 I don't see that Peter was suggesting that holding the abandonware from Google Code Archives makes it maintained per se (because in the archives, they cannot) - but there are two aspects of being maintained: the upstream maintainer, and the FreeBSD port. Be sure not to talk past each other. I will suggest that the author's activity in the software's surroundings (support mailing lists, web site, forums, ...) should also be considered.= Matthias