On 29.09.2016 21:10, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
Hi!
Christian Weisgerber wrote on 09/29/2016 18:57:
Mathieu Arnold:
If the software has not been moved to some other place, (it takes about
30 seconds to click the automatic migration to github thing, and it is
usually done within the hour,) since march 2015, it is most likely
abandoned and should not be kept in the ports tree.
That's a bold new policy.
In the past, if the upstream was gone and the maintainer judged the
software still useful (at their discretion, not based on a cut-off
date), they would even fall back to providing the distfile at
people.freebsd.org.
I don't think it is good to remove ports just because source was not
updated for some time. There are ports useful even 10 years after last
update. Namely pnm2ppa is really old piece of code. It was removed from
ports tree because there was not maintainer. So I must become a
maintainer and now the port is alive again.
I think there should not be policy to remove ports if they have
maintainer or some user using them if only thing which should be done is
to change SRC url.
I agree, old code does not mean it's useless code.
Yes. Like i already said: there is a great bunch of software were the
developer is even dead and the software is still useful. The software is
feature complete and just runs.
We probably need a way to find out how often a pkg is downloaded
from a repo to understand which ports/pkg are really used in our
user base. This helps to decide if a port is really no longer in use.
That would be very misleading. Some people always compile (like myself
for example). And if the software is old it is very likely that you
install them ones. And another time when you need a new server because
your hardware died.
Greetings,
Torsten
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