On 02/04/05 21:34 Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
I'd really like to have an instant notification if a port is not maintained anymore; as far as I can see, this is only done by the "not modified in 20 days" check, which again is rather dangerous for ports which hardly ever change (even though aterm has a beta out, and blackbox an RC ;-)).
Just an idea: what about looking at the REPO file instead? Either at the REPO timestamp or at a var inside that file (maybe auto-generated by httpup?). That would 'gently invite' the contributors to update the repo (say once a month), even if by simply adjusting the 'lastgenerated' var, just to tell us the repo is still maintained as a whole. 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
Hi, On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:08:36 +0100, Simone Rota wrote: 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. preprep [1] handles this by maintaining a list if ports which were synced last time, and synced this time; those is $last but not in $this are those which have to be marked 'unmaintained'. Either way, I hope I'll manage to setup a test repository this evening using preprep; I'll be in #crux during that :-). Kind regards, Johannes References: 1. http://jw.tks6.net/files/crux/preprep/preprep.sh.html -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Bern, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net