On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 22:15:58 PDT Zhihao Yuan wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Charlie Kester <corky1...@comcast.net> wrote:
Well, due to some serious philosophical differences re these
deprecation campaigns and what seems to be resistance to any further
discussion, I don't think I can continue working with the committers.
So I'm stepping down.
If no one else wants to maintain them, please reset the maintainer of the
following ports to po...@freebsd.org:
audio/mcplay
deskutils/osmo
deskutils/teapot
devel/argtable
devel/egypt
devel/gengetopt
devel/libXGP
devel/libYGP
finance/xinvest
finance/xquote
graphics/box
graphics/boxer
graphics/fly
graphics/sng
math/ised
misc/vifm
misc/xsw
multimedia/gpodder
multimedia/openshot
multimedia/photofilmstrip
security/beecrypt
security/ccrypt
security/nettle
security/ranpwd
sysutils/dircomp
sysutils/gaffitter
sysutils/iextract
sysutils/lookat
sysutils/moreutils
sysutils/moreutils-parallel
sysutils/ncdu
sysutils/rdup
textproc/tdhkit
x11/fbpanel
O-o-ok... philosophical differences.
audio/mcplay and the 3 multimedia-related ports, + fbpanel, have many
users, AFAIK, and require much works. We need to someone to take them
soon.
I don't know what you mean by "requires much works". The only ones of
these ports that are not up-to-date are xquote and nettle.
There is already an open PR to update nettle. All it needs is some
attention from a committer.
Frankly, xquote should be deprecated, as it's an old-style Motif app
that's so ugly I'll bet no one uses it. I only took it (and the related
xinvest) because they got reinstated after I pointed out they were still
fetchable at a new location.
Everything else is in good shape.
I've been told that we shouldn't be looking for reasons to save any
unmaintained port, and I was specifically told this in response to my
efforts to identify ports that have a lot of users. So I don't think
current policy supports the conclusion that "we need to find someone to
take them soon."
There, in a nutshell, you have the philosophical disagreement which led
to my decision to be done with ports.
If the powers-that-be want to deprecate all of these and lighten the
load on the system and themselves, I no longer care. I know how to
download a tarball and run through the configure/make/install routine,
so I'll still be able to run the software I need. I thought I'd lend a
hand to those who don't have those skills, but it doesn't seem that this
contribution is welcomed or appreciated. "There are too many ports!"
(Sorry if I'm ranting, I am still very angry about all this.)
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