Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:20:15 +0200 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, portmgr-feedback@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ACTION REQUIRED - Unstaged Ports being DEPRECATED on June 31st. Message-ID: <5370843F.8070104@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <53707FF6.3010300@bsdforen.de> References: <536E46E0.7030906@FreeBSD.org> <53707FF6.3010300@bsdforen.de>
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On 5/12/2014 10:01, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 10/05/2014 17:33, Bryan Drewery wrote: >> You are receiving this mail as it affects FreeBSD ports that you maintain. >> >> In September 2013, the Ports framework learned how to Stage ports. >> >> On June 31st, all unstaged ports will be marked DEPRECATED and have >> their MAINTAINER reset. >> On August 31st, all unstaged ports will be removed from the ports tree. > > That's hardly fair with maintainer-updates not being committed for months. I would have thought it to be obvious, but ports with valid and applicable PRs are excluded. No unstaged port with a pending PR to stage it is going to be removed, the PR will get processed instead. > I usually stop updating my ports when that happens and resume my > activity when my confidence that stuff has a chance of being committed > is restored. I.e. when all my old updates have been committed. I commit PR patches that are 6 to 18 months old fairly frequently. There is obviously a huge backlog but many PRs are processed daily. The PRs that aren't getting processed quickly are "[NEW PORT]" PRs (and apparently anything mentioning fuse-fs for some reason). A staging PR is going to jump the line; it has a higher priority. Why would you even entertain the idea that a staging PR will fall between the cracks? John
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