On 04/07/04 00:10 Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
Hey,
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 13:54:55 +0200, Johannes Winkelmann wrote: CLC maintainers, could you write a short comment whether you would be in favour of a solution where external packagers are invited to provide updated versions of unmaintained ports in their private httpup repositories? They could then file a bug report with the URL and any CLC maintainer could sync it to CLC CVS.
The work required for a CLC maintainer is: [cut]
b) for an existing port
I personally would like such an system, maybe even if I'm working just as maintainer for a package which is maintained by a non-CLC person. It would improve the value of the unmaintained collection and would allow us to remove ports which haven't been changed in $TIME from the repository since we're sure no one cared to update this one. And finally, people could actually contribute changes back.
I must confess that I was a bit confused at first with the new httpup features (apart from proxy support ;-)) and the relation between the unmaintained collection. I briefly re-read at the "Port reorganisation?" thread (jan 04) and came up with the following comments / ideas: - I'm not sure if it is a good idea to have a unmaintained collection at all, at least for me unmaintained ports are a last-resort-handle-with-care thing. - I was thinking of httpup-ng more as a way of improving the quality of /contrib: if I trust an external contributor, and I think he has some valuable port, I'd prefer to maintain the port rather than throwing it into unmaintained. Same work for me, the contributor is awarded of having his port in contrib (what an honor :)), and, most important, I bet contrib ports are a lot more tested and it's easier to have a bug report filed for a maintained collection. - Of course the above points don't necessarily collide: the new httpup can simplify syncronization operations for both collections as well, so good work! Regards, Simone -- Simone Rota WEB : http://www.varlock.com Bergamo, Italy MAIL: sip@varlock.com