Doug Barton wrote:
On 04/25/2011 17:28, martinko wrote:
Ok,
I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports and I identifed the
following that I may be using or at least used in past and I could take
over their maintenance to save them from death:
Generally by the time that a port has deteriorated to the point where
the distfiles are gone, and it has no maintainer, it's usually a
pretty good sign that it's time to move on. This isn't just because of
the distfile issue. Every port in the tree consumes resources, whether
it's for pointyhat runs, space on the package sites (including the
mirrors), etc. They also consume time to deal with when they get
broken by changes in the OS, etc. What we're trying to do here is to
eliminate ports that are no longer useful.
You might want to consider whether or not some of these can be
replaced by different alternatives.
misc/wmweather
Give misc/wmweather+ a try. It's actively developed and maintained.
sysutils/wmmemmon
There are a million other dockapps that do similar jobs, and this one
does not seem that special. :)
As for the gimp thing that you mentioned, I don't know anything about
it, but if you wish to become its maintainer the polite thing to do
would be to provide resources to host its distfile(s).
Doug
Well, I actually use both weather dockapps you mentioned and would like
to keep them. The same goes for wmmemmon. Diversity is good, people
have different tastes and I hope no one is going to make (unnecessary)
decisions for them.
Regarding hosting the files -- one of the goals of the foundation is to
provide infrastructure for the project. And this seems like one of the
opportunities to do so. Besides, all of the ports mentioned have their
distfiles already mirrored on FreeBSD's FTP.
Cheers,
M.
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