From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Thu Apr 5 11:42:31 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B97FA07E5 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 11:42:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.117.100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9083177044 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 11:42:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from leaf.local (unknown [88.202.132.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D4AC2812B for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2018 11:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=FreeBSD.org Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/D4AC2812B; dkim=none; dkim-atps=neutral To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Matthew Seaman Subject: phpLDAPadmin -- is it time to drop this from ports? Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 12:42:22 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 11:42:31 -0000 Dear all, I've maintained the net/phpldapadmin port for _many_ years. Unfortunately this project seems to have ceased development upstream. There hasn't been a new release for more than 5 years, nor any sign of life from the original developer over much the same timespan. PLA still just about works, but it is lacking in support for more recent versions of PHP and generally sufferring from lack of love. I'm beginning to think that it is about time to take this port around the back of the barn and administer the coup-de-grace. There are other graphical front-ends to LDAP directories available, such as 'LDAP Account Manager' https://www.ldap-account-manager.org/lamcms/ (in ports as sysutils/ldap-account-manager), so people won't be left entirely out to dry. What do people think? Is it time to deprecate and expire PLA, or is there a diehard core of users for whom PLA will need to be ripped from their cold, dead hands? Cheers, Matthew