On 04/26/2011 15:09, Charlie Kester wrote:
Now that I have my code proved out, I'm going to expand it to look at
all unmaintained ports regardless of category. Any suggestions for
where I should post the results? (That is, unless you think the
bitbucket is the only suitable place for it.)
As a matter of curiosity, sure, put it on a web site somewhere, no worries.
Meanwhile, I think you might be missing the point. :) We should not be
looking for reasons to save unmaintained ports. We should be providing
resources for those that would like to adopt them, pointing users to
suitable alternatives, marking them deprecated so as to encourage
maintainers to come forward, etc. In other words, exactly what we have
been doing.
Yes, there will likely be a period after the ports actually disappear
where some of them will need to be resurrected because someone will
finally be motivated to step forward. But that's easily done. Meanwhile,
let's nuke as much as we can, as fast as we can. We're rapidly closing
in on 23,000 ports, which is already an unmanageable mess. We need to be
able to delete the cruft if we have any hope of keeping the ship afloat.
Doug
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