Gnats port disappeared??

[vwe at freebsd.org]

On 01/16/12 01:44, Mark Linimon wrote:
> I'm kind of afraid to touch the thing at this point.  Maybe some
> of the other boys feel differently.
>
> mcl
>

Mark,

as we feel gnats should be abandoned already for a very long time, I 
don't think it makes sense to fix anything. It might be time to decide 
for either "upgrade" (I don't imagine how much work the procedure of 
upgrading might be) gnats to version 4 or switch away from that tool 
completely (I think it's long overdue but don't feel the need to put 
pressure on it).

I think everybody agrees to switch away from gnats but there's not much 
need to press on that as we live a comfortable (but not lucky) life 
without changing much.

As there's no pressure to change, we can waste our time in many 
different ways much better.

On the other side, we can (steal|grab) a bit from our friends @netbsd as 
they've hacked their own version of gnats (I think they're using 
gnats4), that uses an SQL database as the backend and their frontend 
also looks much nicer. I'm pretty sure joerg@ is our friend to grab the 
code from.

To come to the point: The port gnats isn't there anymore. clusteradm 
needed to do too much work to grab that port from the attic just to 
change some bits and manipulating files on disk of an already installed 
port / package isn't the thing I feel comfortable with (it awfully blows 
consistency-check). But that might be just me. Probably clusteradm and 
the other bugmeister' feel different and are happy to take the danger 
and do the work.

Take care!

Volker