Port Bloat

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:53:32 -0500, Peter Thoenen <eol1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A couple months ago somebody posted a heads up on this list from the
> FreeBSD Ports Team about ports bloat and the massive influx of new
> software along with all the unmaintained ports.  Has the port team ever
> thought about:
>
> A) Making a delete port pr request.  This way port maintainers INSTEAD
> of marking 'transfer ownership to ports at freebsd.org' and hoping
> somebody takes it over one day could actually just delete ports they no
> longer wish to maintain.  There should be some sort of WARN marking
> mechanism though (valid for X months (maybe 6)) that notifies any new
> user (or current via a portupgrade and EPOCH bumb) that this port is no
> longer maintained and scheduled for deletion unless one of them takes
> over maitainership by DATE.
>
> B) In line with A, has anybody thought about just marking ALL
> ports at freebsd.org as scheduled for deletion on X date.  Thousands of
> people are using these ports, you can't tell me if they were actually
> scheduled to be deleted from the tree at least one of the users
> wouldn't take over maintainership.

I disagree with all of this, because ports@ or unmaintain don't mean they  
are broke. They work fine, so no reason to delete them. When it is broke  
then can add scheduled for deletion on X date until someone steps in and  
fix it without take the maintain.

Cheers,
Mezz

> -Peter
>
> Just some ideas (as I have ports I own that I no longer care about and
> would like to delete),
>
> -Peter


-- 
mezz7 at cox.net  -  mezz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD GNOME Team  -  FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src)
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/  -  gnome at FreeBSD.org
http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia  -  multimedia at FreeBSD.org