What will happen with unstaged ports with pending PRs on June 30th?

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Sat Jun 21 17:19:23 UTC 2014


On 21 June 2014 06:45, Ivan Rokotov <ivan.rokotov.bsd at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 21.06.2014, 15:37, "Kurt Jaeger" <lists at opsec.eu>:
>> Hi!
>>>  Only 9 days left until the proposed deadline to add staging support
>>>  to all ports. My question is: what will happen that day with unstaged
>>>  ports that have submitted staging patches?
>>
>> From what I understand: Not much for additional 2 month.
>>
>> The plan was to remove the unstaged, deprecated ports beginning of August.
>
> Well, from this mail:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2014-May/092166.html
> I gather that they will be marked as 'DEPRECATED' and set as non-maintained. DEPRECATED ports can't be installed, AFAIK.

They can be.

> Nothing is said in the aforementioned mail about ports with pending PRs.

Ports with pending PRs should not be removed.

> I'm not a maintainer myself, but I guess that people won't be happy to have their maintainership reset if they actually did their job.

Agreed.


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Eitan Adler


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