From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 15:21:42 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF44AE5 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:21:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Erik.Trulsson.1013@student.uu.se) Received: from velox.its.uu.se (velox.its.uu.se [130.238.7.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F3AA3 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:21:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uu.se X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.3 velox.its.uu.se 5274234D7C DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=uu.se; s=centralsmtp; t=1357571603; i=@uu.se; bh=42d+iYsq13dKVVWIEodo3z4KSjUghj3VZjDoPVCo6IM=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To: MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=KWXvjWxjMW5tfWXtIg99nsqKH6Cb04QUwTx8Q0v5T6VrDjho8hFNttAtVtjAx+/uN YHyufZBZ1cyyvvadQ/3SLWTQOCC8cyR3W16ErVlo6tN/rAr2aV1RLKT6gcptQF5P82 w5NOUf7iaVZ4QcuSI8cWaK+QvV9RBv9NCSgnu2e0= Received: from virgata.its.uu.se (virgata.its.uu.se [130.238.7.55]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by velox.its.uu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5274234D7C for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 16:13:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from jubula (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by virgata.its.uu.se (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r07FDLjN001882 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 16:13:23 +0100 Received: from h-197-74.a213.corp.bahnhof.se (h-197-74.a213.corp.bahnhof.se [85.24.197.74]) by webmail.uu.se (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:13:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20130107161321.63449rhmrb0af95d@webmail.uu.se> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:13:21 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why delete KDE3 ports? References: <50EADA33.9010308@aldan.algebra.com> <50EADEFA.2070201@marino.st> <50EAE40E.5090300@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <50EAE40E.5090300@aldan.algebra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.3.9) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:21:42 -0000 Quoting "Mikhail T." : > On 07.01.2013 09:54, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> Are you willing to step up as the maintainer of the KDE3 ports? Or >> anyone else reading this? The situation with ports like KDE3 is that >> they are lots of work to keep up in shape and if no one wants to >> maintain them they succumb to what is called "bitrot" very quickly >> when something changes in dependent ports or in the base system. > > When/if that happens, we can renew the conversation. For the time > being there are no build errors. Indeed. That a port is old is not a good reason to remove it. That a port is unmaintained is also not a good reason to remove it. If a port stops working and nobody steps up to fix it, *then* removal becomes a reasonable action, but not before that.