Re: FreeBSD ports disabled for bsdforge

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 02:00:04PM +0000, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:
> Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> wrote:
> ...
> > NO! I missed the domain renewal by 5 days. So domain went unavailable.
> > I fixed it on the 6th day.
> 
> I thought it was a bit rash of them to do all that so soon (it was obvious
> that the domain hadn't expired completely, as I could see that you renewed
> it before it was returned to being "unused".)

It was very rash, but for endangered ports, they'll use any possibility.

> I did find some other commits too, where ports have either had the
> maintainer changed, or marked broken.
> 
> https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/?qt=grep&q=bsdforge

Yeah, Chris should probably review all those undue commits and ask them
to be reverted, at least the deprecation/maintainer resets.

> I did ping both Daniel and Muhammad the day before I emailed you, but
> neither have responded!

Muhammad seldom responds to email these days; for both of them I believe
this situation (Chris' domain renewal and him coming back online) is
uncomfortable as they both want for his ports to die ASAP. :(

./danfe