Quoting Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org>:
Hi. Here's a list of web apps that are candidate for removal in ports. The main reason is that they don't add any added value (basically and enhanced tar xzf of upstream's tarball with nothing OpenBSD specific nor added documentation) and that they are often left unmaintainned and outdated in the tree which leads people to think they are still maintained while they are not. I will not force removal of any of these if someone has a real use for it and step up to properly maintain it... but if not, they will end up getting removed very soon. So please speak up if you have any objection. Thanks. flyspray mediawiki mediawiki-CategoryTree mediawiki-httpauth mycalendar myreview phpicalendar pmwiki pyblosxom sabredav xinha -- Antoine
Even though I can understand why outdated software should not have the imprimatur of OpenBSD, my feeling is that it is better to have more packages than less. Even if some are outdated, the ports infrastructure allows someone to copy Makefiles etc., and cobble together a new package for their own use. However, of all these webapps are removed, then quite often, a user may not even know that such an application exists and may end up wasting time on some other platform that ostensibly supports more ports. So FWIW, if having all the old ports does not create problems for dpb and the ports infrastructure, it will be good to have them.
Would it be feasible to come up with some sort of reward system for building ports/packages? If it is a useful thing to do for the OpenBSD community and does not create any problems for the developers and maintainers, I would like to donate to such an effort.
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