Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:30:27 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r422154 - head/misc/fortune_strfile Message-ID: <f6bdefb3-8a6c-15d9-bdab-1eeaabab4fa5@passap.ru> In-Reply-To: <86ed1257-e5b7-8e82-ad37-039690a394a1@FreeBSD.org> References: <201609141925.u8EJPJb8077087@repo.freebsd.org> <2be2dfc7-2be7-aaf3-7510-58279dea9e37@marino.st> <e2accd31-64bf-014a-d182-ab21c07ebf9b@FreeBSD.org> <74591600-69ee-7219-c878-5ae7366b42b8@passap.ru> <86ed1257-e5b7-8e82-ad37-039690a394a1@FreeBSD.org>
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15.09.2016 01:11, Bryan Drewery пишет: > On 9/14/16 1:32 PM, Boris Samorodov wrote: >> 14.09.2016 22:44, Bryan Drewery пишет: >> >>> Ports need maintainers. >> >> Agreed. But _need_ is not _must have_. > > http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/need > "a situation in which someone or something must do or have something" OK. You quoted the "Simple definition". Here is a quote from the "Full definition": "2 a : a lack of something requisite, desirable, or useful" >>> It is standard practice to deprecate ports without a maintainer >> >> Then it is a bad practice. > > Having ports without a maintainer is a bad practice.> It leaves users > with no one to support them when things go wrong. It leaves users with help from the community and any port's committer ability to commit immediately. There are plenty of examples at ports@ ML. > A new compiler could > easily break this port and no one would be there to support fixing it. > >> Unless you say "... to deprecate *broken/unwanted/etc* ports ...". But >> you did not. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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