From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 1 07:12:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EAE1106566B for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 07:12:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gamato@users.sf.net) Received: from smtp-out3.iol.cz (smtp-out3.iol.cz [194.228.2.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B40B98FC1A for ; Sun, 1 May 2011 07:12:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from antivir5.iol.cz (unknown [192.168.30.212]) by smtp-out3.iol.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF9E2BC80FA; Sun, 1 May 2011 07:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (antivir5.iol.cz [127.0.0.1]) by antivir5.iol.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF541E8031; Sun, 1 May 2011 09:12:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at iol.cz Received: from antivir5.iol.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (antivir5.iol.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10224) with LMTP id eJro3918gi5D; Sun, 1 May 2011 09:12:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from port8.iol.cz (unknown [192.168.30.98]) by antivir5.iol.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F41F1E802F; Sun, 1 May 2011 09:12:39 +0200 (CEST) X-SBRS: None X-SBRS-none: None X-RECVLIST: MTA-OUT-IOL X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AowSAGMHvU1asinI/2dsb2JhbAAMhT3lXoYABI55jiQ Received: from 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz (HELO [192.168.11.3]) ([90.178.41.200]) by port8.iol.cz with ESMTP; 01 May 2011 09:12:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4DBD07EE.4010402@users.sf.net> Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 09:12:46 +0200 From: mato User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110424 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: saving a few ports from death X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 07:12:41 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > On 04/25/2011 17:28, martinko wrote: >> Ok, >> I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports and I identifed the >> following that I may be using or at least used in past and I could take >> over their maintenance to save them from death: > > Generally by the time that a port has deteriorated to the point where > the distfiles are gone, and it has no maintainer, it's usually a > pretty good sign that it's time to move on. This isn't just because of > the distfile issue. Every port in the tree consumes resources, whether > it's for pointyhat runs, space on the package sites (including the > mirrors), etc. They also consume time to deal with when they get > broken by changes in the OS, etc. What we're trying to do here is to > eliminate ports that are no longer useful. > > You might want to consider whether or not some of these can be > replaced by different alternatives. > >> misc/wmweather > > Give misc/wmweather+ a try. It's actively developed and maintained. > >> sysutils/wmmemmon > > There are a million other dockapps that do similar jobs, and this one > does not seem that special. :) > > As for the gimp thing that you mentioned, I don't know anything about > it, but if you wish to become its maintainer the polite thing to do > would be to provide resources to host its distfile(s). > > > Doug > Well, I actually use both weather dockapps you mentioned and would like to keep them. The same goes for wmmemmon. Diversity is good, people have different tastes and I hope no one is going to make (unnecessary) decisions for them. Regarding hosting the files -- one of the goals of the foundation is to provide infrastructure for the project. And this seems like one of the opportunities to do so. Besides, all of the ports mentioned have their distfiles already mirrored on FreeBSD's FTP. Cheers, M.