Hi Markus, On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:20:15 +0200, Markus Ackermann wrote:
Various stuff I noticed over the last few days:
- dkg isn't listed on the About CLC page http://clc.berlios.de/?p=about True. It's been three days since his account was created, and as I'm doing other stuff than CLC web page updates I don't consider this a bad delay. Obviously I'm going to add him ASAP.
- I wouldn't call the status column "Retired" in About CLC because that sets a positive "yes" behind every name that's *no longer* part of CLC. I'd rather call it status and set "active" or "retired", or even delete that column or create a separate table with retired maintainers. Ok, that's a good idea.
- the hotkeys port doesn't compile, the gnomeicu port doesn't work. Please remove them from unmaintained.
- unmaintained is a problem in itself. There are outdated and non-working ports, and nobody is responsible for them. I think it's worse to have such a repository than not having one at all. Dropping unmaintained is fine with me. It should be kept around for port developers, but not necessarily within the CLC project.
I'm pretty anxious if there will be lots of httpup repos replacing unmaintained, but that's ok :-)
IMHO with the rise of httpup http://clc.berlios.de/projects/httpup/ there's no need for such a repository, every contributor can have his own httpup webspace. In order to still have a central directory you could create a httpop-rep port which always contains all known /etc/ports/*.httpup files. I think most httpup repository maintainers would still allow CLC maintainers to take over their ports for inclusion in contrib, if need arises. I think so too. And hopefully we could just ask httpup repo maintainers to join our team with a few ports from of their personal repositories. This would actually also help us to accept new CLC maintainers, as we could just require every candidate to maintain an httpup repo for a while first.
Should there be rules for a repository to become part of the httpup-rep port? I'm mostly concerned about duplicates here, in order to make it play nice with prt-get. Regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Biel, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net