Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 19:29:25 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org, jhs@berklix.com, dougb@freebsd.org, utisoft@gmail.com Subject: Re: sysutils/cfs Message-ID: <CAF6rxgms=EOVPP_uoNnwnPQ%2B_nD%2BUDCoCf446U3LM0dPhHSpQw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e65b42e.M5K%2Bto11vAdk/UTk%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <201109050933.p859XEbP004874@fire.js.berklix.net> <4E64C35A.50004@FreeBSD.org> <4e65b42e.M5K%2Bto11vAdk/UTk%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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> AFAIK there are maybe half a dozen or so developers who have > recently put themselves on record as supporting the current, > agressive deprecation campaign. =C2=A0The number who have posted in > opposition may well be smaller, so you are probably right if "the > community" is defined as consisting only of those two groups :) I'm probably counted as one of the half-dozen developers here. However... >> >>> Better to deprecate such non urgent ports, & wait a while >> >>> after next release is rolled, to give release users a warning >> >>> & some time to volunteer ... If this will help a number of people this sounds like an excellent suggesti= on! > I somehow doubt that anyone has polled even a modest percentage of > our users -- to find out what they would consider "the best support > possible" -- since AFAIK we have no way of even _identifying_ more > than a tiny fraction of the user base. A) We need better statistics for ports in general B) We need better ways of communicating with our users to find out how people actually use the ports tree. --=20 Eitan Adler
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