If we have alternatives let's not bother with unmaintained software... And yes, maybe someone is using it, but as long as we keep it in the ports tree gives a false sense of continuity...
OK mariani@ Cheers. On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 9:12 AM Solene Rapenne <[email protected]> wrote: > > Taking a look at jabber servers, I found we had net/jabberd which is > abandonned since 1st november 2018. > > Official source repository is archived/read-only > https://github.com/jabberd2/jabberd2 and nothing can happen to it > anymore. It seems no fork made progress compared to the official > repository. > > Official statement from the only jabberd2 developer that he stops > working on it, 20 jan 2018: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02553.html > > I propose to remove this from ports, it's old and not maintained. > Ejabberd was obsolete in our ports tree but it still developed, this is > one clearly abandoned and dead. > > ok for removal? If so, I'd like to do it before 6.7 so we don't ship > this. >
