On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 5:50 PM Martin Waschbüsch <mar...@waschbuesch.de> wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > Am 11.08.2019 um 23:22 schrieb Adam Weinberger <ad...@adamw.org>: > > > > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 1:05 PM Franco Fichtner <fra...@lastsummer.de> > > wrote: > >> > >> Quarterly is essentially useless if the decision is to immediately axe a > >> deprecated release. 3 months are nothing in production environments, if > >> you get 3 months (1,5 months mean) at all and also all other updates and > >> security relevant bug fixes in the same quarterly that you desperately > >> need. > >> > >> Yeah, we know that won’t happen so please don’t suggest it. > >> > >> That deprecation policy is nice and well all by itself except when it > >> wreaks havoc over the ports infrastructure like in the case of PHP version > >> support where numerous ports are immediately unavailable and incompatible > >> with upgrades. > >> > >> Furthermore, the argument that it is more more work to maintain an > >> abandoned version is silly because it’s more work to delete a port that to > >> just keep it in the tree for a while longer. > > > > That last part isn't correct. The work of deleting the ports is > > largely automated and simple, and it will always happen eventually. > > The work involved is in supporting unsupported versions. Our php team > > is spread very thin, and they simply cannot support php versions > > outside of upstream development. There are no resources to backport > > fixes that may or may not be designed to work with older versions > > I do not understand this. At all. > And I sort of hope I misunderstood you, because it sounds like you think a > maintainer is or may be regarded as someone who can be expected to provide > product support of some kind? > I find that notion worrying to say the least.
If you believe that handling updates, analyzing submitted and upstream patches and development, and answering a bevy of questions for every major update is effortless, then you drastically underestimate the amount of work that goes into the ports tree. Like I said in the part of my reply that you deleted, I'm open to considering another model that permits and limits ports of stale language versions. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger ad...@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
