Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:17:00 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: marino@freebsd.org, Martin Wilke <miwi.fbsd@gmail.com>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, "svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.org" <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.org" <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster Message-ID: <20160127081700.GA20812@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <56A8747E.5080703@FreeBSD.org> References: <201601261123.u0QBNcvL091258@repo.freebsd.org> <CAFY%2ByEkOv9-JaJv45WF-GzTxOiFh6k8sZ4rysUS5xTZs=rWNrA@mail.gmail.com> <56A86CAD.7030507@marino.st> <56A8747E.5080703@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 06:40:46PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote: > I find no issue with notifying users that portmaster is *currently* > unmaintained and has open issues, and that support can't *currently* > be provided for it. > > However, I don't believe we ought take actions that hasten its demise. > In fact, I believe a statement to the effect that we *want* someone to > take maintainership in order to avoid further bitrot would be > worthwhile. It's funny how easily we deprecate some things (G2, KDE3, pre-KMS X.org, etc.) yet *want* someone to take maintainership in order to avoid further bitrot of broken and inferior reimplementation of portupgrade. :-) > Given what the term 'deprecated' implies, I would use a pre-everything: > message instead. That's a good idea actually. ./danfe
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