On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:11:05PM +0200, Mikhail Kolesnik wrote:
Another question is how someone can know if particular maintainer just postponed his git/contrib participation or completely retired... so that another maintainer can take over his ports? I think that the maintainer will announce his retirement at the mailing list. Besides orphaned ports are moved to attic. I doubt we'll see any such announces in a week or two, but the fact is
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:16:14PM +0200, Mikhail Kolesnik wrote: that very few contirb members started to use git. Seems that i didn't get your point. In my opinion members of the _new_ git contrib repo will announce their retirement to the mailing list.
I hope the current sate of (old) contrib repo will be available through rsync as contrib-attic for some time. At least this will allow new users to get more (not very fresh) ports putting contrib-attic after contrib in prt-get.conf Well, I think that this is only a good idea if we use this repo as another attic repo. We shouldn't provide old and possible harmful ports to new users. Of course we should not. But imagine a new user a with a freshly installed crux 2.2 system - he'll definitely miss many common applications. What is the plan for him? Sync to many-many personal repos or reinvent all that ports by hand? Well, there is no plan. If he miss something he has to create the ports on himself or sync to personal repos...