On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:53:32 -0500, Peter Thoenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A couple months ago somebody posted a heads up on this list from the FreeBSD Ports Team about ports bloat and the massive influx of new software along with all the unmaintained ports. Has the port team ever thought about: A) Making a delete port pr request. This way port maintainers INSTEAD of marking 'transfer ownership to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' 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for X months (maybe 6)) that notifies any new user (or current via a portupgrade and EPOCH bumb) that this port is no longer maintained and scheduled for deletion unless one of them takes over maitainership by DATE. B) In line with A, has anybody thought about just marking ALL [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
I disagree with all of this, because ports@ or unmaintain don't mean they are broke. They work fine, so no reason to delete them. When it is broke then can add scheduled for deletion on X date until someone steps in and fix it without take the maintain.
Cheers, Mezz
-Peter Just some ideas (as I have ports I own that I no longer care about and would like to delete), -Peter
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