Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:56:23 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: eol1@yahoo.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Bloat Message-ID: <op.thg5f9p09aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20061015055332.82539.qmail@web51905.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:53:32 -0500, Peter Thoenen <eol1@yahoo.com> 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 ports@freebsd.org' 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 > ports@freebsd.org 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 -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org
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