Re: Proposed ports deprecation and removal policy

On 2024-02-28 12:13, Florian Smeets wrote:
> On 28.02.24 21:00, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>> On 28/02/2024 20:22, Florian Smeets wrote:
>> 
>>> Ports can be removed immediately if one of the following conditions is 
>>> met:
>>> 
>>> - Upstream distfile is no longer available from the original source/mirror 
>>> (Our and other distcaches e.g. Debian, Gentoo, etc do not count as 
>>> "available")
>> 
>> I miss some sort of time frame like in the following cases. The way the 
>> sentence is written now, it looks like there may be an immediate removal on 
>> the first day of the outage.
>> 
> 
> Good point. Yeah, it certainly isn't the intention to remove it immediately. 
> I
> will make a note to add a time frame. I'm thinking 4 weeks, as that feels 
> long for
> a site to go away and reappear, but we might just make it 3 months as with 
> most of
> the other points.
I'd vote for 3 (mos). But 2 also seems reasonable. So that those that use it. 
But don't
update frequently get a chance to notice, and subsequently save/maintain it. 
:)

> 
> Thanks
> Florian

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