5000 unstaged ports [was: in head/multimedia/xmms: . files]

[Bryan Drewery]

On 2014-04-09 03:05, John Marino wrote:
> On 4/9/2014 09:59, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> 
>> We still have 5k packages not staged which are blockers for cross 
>> building for
>> examples or sub packages
> 
> A very large portion of those have @FreeBSD.org addresses listed as
> MAINTAINER.  I don't think it's out of line to deprecate those first,
> before the unmaintained ports.
> 
> Has a mass email gone out to every @FreeBSD.org person with at least 
> one
> unstaged port to set a near-term deadline to get the port staged?  I'm
> happy to pull the trigger quickly but they should all be given a
> specific "do it soon (by this date) or else" message so they have no
> legs to stand on when it's complaining time.
> 
> John

We're working on a mail, announcement, blog, and timetable for all of 
this.

We'll start spamming maintainers soon about it as well.

Should have something sent out this week.

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Regards,
Bryan Drewery