Deprecation policies (was: svn commit: r347338 - in head/net-p2p: . microdc2 microdc2/files)

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 01:09:50PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > microdc2 is useful port; and given how easy it was to unbreak it, I don't
> > understand how could it possibly slip into abyss in the first place. :(
> > This is why I generally do not support deprecation due to compile failure.
> 
> Have you done any larger infrastructure work recently?
> 
> I have worked on several, and I can tell it is painful.  It is painful 
> because of all those semi-broken and kind-of-broken and partially mended 
> and dying and reanimated and undead ports in the tree.  Ports that still 
> do not support staging.  Ports that fail to build on most versions I test.
> 
> 
> If anything, I think we need to consider becoming more aggressive:
> 
> A port that fails to build on either of the latest two major release 
> branches for X months gets deprecated.
> 
> A port that does not support staging by my birthday gets deprecated.
> 
> Any such ports that have been deprecated for two months and not seen
> any work to fix them get removed.
> 
> Gerald
> 
> 
> PS: I am not asking for perfection and appreciate all the help I have
> received from Thierry, Mat, Sunpoet, René, John, David, Martin, Decke,
> the B brothers and others with their ports and mine and infrastructure.

+10000 !!!!

regards,
Bapt
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