On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:16:14PM +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
Hello, Simon. On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 12:34:01 +0100 Simon Gloßner <viper@hometux.de> wrote: that very few contirb members started to use git.
P.S. 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?
Personally I am ok with your plan and waiting for others to switch. -- Mikhail Kolesnik ICQ: 260259143 IRC: mike_k at freenode/#crux, rusnet/#yalta Jabber: mike_k@jabber.lafox.net NIC handle: MKK83-UANIC