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Date:      Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:13:08 +0400
From:      Max Brazhnikov <makc@issp.ac.ru>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/accessibility/kdeaccessibility Makefile ports/arabic/kde3-i18n Makefile ports/arabic/koffice-i18n Makefile ports/audio/arts Makefile ports/audio/juk Makefile ports/audio/mpeglib_artsplug Makefile ports/chinese/kde3-i18n-zh_CN Makefile ...
Message-ID:  <201107072313.09123.makc@issp.ac.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4E15F661.9070806@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201107071721.p67HLwI4003863@repoman.freebsd.org> <4E15F661.9070806@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:09:37 -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 10:21, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
> > Reset maintainership de jure. In fact KDE 3 has not been maintained by
> > our team
> > 
> >   for a long time, not to mention upstream.
> >   
> >   Discussed a while ago among the KDE/FreeBSD team.
> 
> Certainly if the ports are not being maintained by kde@ then dropping
> maintainership is the right solution. However given the situation
> wouldn't deprecation+expiry be the logical next step?

Until ports are not broken or/and forbidden I see no reason for deprecation 
and removing them.
However you may consider this step as a recommendation to migrate from 
Qt3/KDE3 ports to anything else.

Max



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