On 11 May 2014 03:33, Bryan Drewery <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > So we will be DEPRECATING and resetting maintainer on all unstaged ports > on June 31st. > > These ports will be set to EXPIRE on August 31st and will then be > removed from the tree. They will not be restored unless someone stages > them as well.
The problem I have with this decision is that there are some complex ports which have no single maintainer (case in point: eclipse-devel); and whose patch-submitters only occasionally dabble with the port. Staging support for these ports sometimes tend to be over-complex, and one that yield no immediate benefit to the submitter. And then there are the ports which have their have their home-baked installer, where adding staging support could mean wholesale changes to the port. It used to be the philosophy of FreeBSD to favour pragmatism over ideology. I must admit to some disappointment over this decision to force staging as the "one true way". Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
