--- Johannes Winkelmann <jw@tks6.net> wrote:
I don't think this is a good idea, since it places an additional burden on the developers (regenerate the repo even if there's no need for it). Given that I'd like to have as many people as possible taking part in this new contrib, I'd like to not introduce any additional complexity over maintaining a personal repo (besides the duplicates, of course).
Other than that, I think I got slighly missunderstood, or maybe I didn't understand Jay's script: as far as I understood, even if the port is not in the input set anymore, the 'unmaintained' tag is only set after a certain time. It's not about measuring a maintainer's activity, it's just about marking those ports which have been dropped by a maintainer as 'unmaintained'. This cannot be seen by looking at the REPO file, since a REPO file of an active maintainer will never be older than a month; he might nevertheless drop ports. Please let me know if I'm not clear here.
I think the way I had intended for prtsync to work (it might even have this in it right now, without looking at the script I can't recall..), was to create the merged repo in a clean directory. That is, if a port is no longer in the input from the various repositories, it will disappear the next time prtsync is run. Is this in itself problematic? ===== Jay Dolan Software Engineer, Systems Analyst Windmill Cycles, Inc. 508.999.4000 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo