Re: git: 692cca400331 - main - www/grafana: Mark DEPRECATED and set expiration date

From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:18:49 UTC
On 17/11/2021 06:21, Guangyuan Yang wrote:
> Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> 于2021年11月16日周二 下午5:15写道:
>> On 16/11/2021 22:56, Guangyuan Yang wrote:
>>> commit 692cca4003317a6c83fa226feccab3e5ec47ab52
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>>>       www/grafana: Mark DEPRECATED and set expiration date
>>>
>>>       Grafana 1 is no longer maintained upstream years ago. Mark DEPRECATED
>>>       after the next quarterly cycle.
>>>
>>>       PR:             257763
>>>       Approved by:    robak (maintainer, timeout > 3 months)
>> Are there any technical reasons why we shouldn't update www/grafana to provide the most recent
>> Grafana version?
> I have actually raised this option as well in the PR (257763), but
> after months of maintainer timeout, I just decided to take the easier
> route. I think www/grafana tracking the latest Grafana version is a
> good idea, but the implementation can be a new slave port tracking
> www/grafana8, or ideally have the same maintainer of www/grafana8. I
> currently do not have extra cycles for it though, so the first thing
> is to stop the confusion that www/grafana currently causes.
Thank you for the explanation. I guess that this project then is up grabs.