Hi, Doug Barton wrote: > On 09/05/2011 02:33, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Chris Rees wrote: > >> On 4 September 2011 21:32, Julian H. Stacey <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Whoops, also missed a CVE -- buffer overflows can cause a DoS. > >>>> Expiration date altered to 1 month accordingly. > >>> > >>> It is not responsible to threaten to remove ports without warning > >>> between releases for non urgent reasons. > > We understand that this is your perspective, however the community in > general has a different idea.
Whose vision, which community ;-) I wasn't worrying about an elite user community of those who don't seem/need to care much beyond ports@ subscribers with CVS & commit privs. I'm concerned about FreeBSD ports release users that excludes, how they will see un-professional ports release management, & how they may dump or not adopt FreeBSD, taking projects & jobs with them. People may like to ask & compare about project management with people in other projects on Saturday, September 17th at http://www.softwarefreedomday.org in ~ 600 cities around the planet, FreeBSD claims to consider Principle Of Least Suprise. Best ask oursleves if FreeBSD ports release management complies. > >>> Better to deprecate such non urgent ports, & wait a while after next > >>> release is rolled, to give release users a warning & some time > >>> to volunteer (or if a firm using releases, perhaps time to allocate > >>> a staff member if a port is important to them). > > That's an interesting idea, but incredibly unlikely to happen. > > >> Yeah... perhaps if there isn't a vulnerability. At the moment it's > >> marked FORBIDDEN, > > > > Correction: > > "At the moment" all those with 8.2-RELEASE/ports still see no FORBIDDEN, > > That's what portaudit is for. > > > The Attic is the standard myopic excuse, ignoring not all FreeBSD > > release users have CVS, > > It is available to everyone, and trivial to configure. The fact that > removed ports still exist in CVS is not a "myopic excuse," it's a fact. > > We need to make the best decisions we can to provide the best support > possible for the largest percentage of our users. Yes, So long as Users != just ports@ subscribers with CVS. Thanks. Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org 17th Sept, http://berklix.org/sfd/ Oct. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
