Port Bloat

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Peter Thoenen wrote:

> 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.

When I asked for one of my ports to be deleted, the request was honored 
extremely quickly and without trouble.  I see no need for a special 
procedure for this.

Stephen