svn commit: r364739 - in head: . sysutils sysutils/syslog-ng-devel sysutils/syslog-ng-devel/files

[Bryan Drewery]

On 8/12/2014 2:44 PM, John Marino wrote:
> On 8/12/2014 21:39, Cy Schubert wrote:
>> Author: cy
>> Date: Tue Aug 12 19:39:33 2014
>> New Revision: 364739
>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/364739
>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r364739/
>>
>> Log:
>>   Reintroduce syslog-ng-devel for 3.6.0alpha2.
>>   
>>   Submitted by:	Peter Czanik <peter.czanik at balabit.com> (syslog-ng upline)
> 
> 
> Do Ports really need alpha quality -devel ports in the collection?
> 
> If it were up to me I'd purge 90% of our -devel ports.  I tried to start
> a conversation about a policy for these with portmgr, but as usual, only
> one person responded.  I'd still like to have that conversation though.
>  This -devel port trend is disturbing.
> 
> John
> 

Why? Devel ports need testing and there are many users willing to use
them. Poudriere-devel probably has more users than the main port right
now, judging from feedback I have received.

pkg-devel also has a lot of users.

I created portupgrade-devel so I could put out fixes and request users
test them with it. It's a very simple way to get fixes into users hands
for testing and feedback.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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