Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:05:35 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysutils/cfs Message-ID: <201109051005.p85A5ZvN005263@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:18:21 CDT." <20110904231821.GC22986@lonesome.com>
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Mark Linimon wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:32:30PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > It is not responsible to threaten to remove ports without warning > > between releases for non urgent reasons. > > portmgr has no such policy. > > Ports get deleted all the time due to various issues. I prefer to see > a 1- or 2-month warning via EXPIRATION_DATE, but that's my personal > preference, not a written policy. > > mcl Drive by ports shootings are becoming too frequent, & will get FreeBSD a bad name as immature & poorly managed A solution: Ensure a policy of expiry dates expire a release after a warning is given in a previous releases (except in emergency). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org 17th Sept, http://berklix.org/sfd/ Oct.
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