On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:15:35 +1100 Joe Gilmour <jgilmour@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
How about posting a warning notice to this list, something along the lines of "In two weeks time the following ports will be removed from the official repos"? That would give people ample time to backup/repackage/whatever before the port disappears. Who knows, there might even pop up the occasional new maintainer... ;-) I like this idea. The growing list of orphaned ports I seem to be
collecting is a little irritating and this might help. I'd be more than happy to maintain a few ports.
Joe
Once upon a time wasn't there an "unmaintained" repository. Perhaps such a repository should be used again, but put a time limit on how long they stay in the repository for. This would prevent the "nasty suprise" effect and the time limit would prevent such a repository from becoming too big (possibly the reason for it's removal). -- Lucas Hazel <lucas@die.net.au> ================================================= "Clothes make the man. Naked men are rarely taken seriously, or given employment." (Mark Twain) =================================================