status of various JDK/SDK ports?

[Greg Lewis]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:10:18PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> While building java/ on QAT, I see a lot of ports failing to fetch or
> requiring manual fetch (sigh). I also see a lot of versions for the
> same thing, some of them very old.
> 
> I'm on a killing spree WRT these ports, most notably
> java/linux-sun-?dk??

All of the *jdk1[34]* ports should be killed off IMO.

Anyone rely on any of these?

> If you care about them, please update them to the latest release or at
> least point the users to a download URL that doesn't require 30 minutes
> of digging on that site.
> 
> Also, enter the names of the java@ members at
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTeams (please look at the other teams
> entries for what should be there; if you already have a wiki page or
> some other resource you can link it, but at minimum it should contain
> the list of people behind java@).

There was a page, it just wasn't linked to the PortsTeams page.  I've now
created that link.

> For your reference, portmgr@ asked this almost a year ago, an I'm about
> to wave the cattle prod about his.
> 
> > Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:28:22 +0200
> > From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at FreeBSD.org>
> > To: ports-developers at FreeBSD.org, portmgr at FreeBSD.org
> > Subject: listing alias/mailing list maintainers
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > portmgr@ would like to ask the members of various teams to document on
> > the wiki.FreeBSD.org the membership of their respective teams inside at
> > most two weeks. This applies both to alias (something at FreeBSd.org) and
> > mailing list (some-ml at FreeBSD.org) maintainers.
> > 
> > The reason is very simple: outside "knowing it all" capability which at
> > least some of us do not posses :) no one has any dependable way of
> > knowing who's who and who to contact. Please keep this list up-to-date
> > in the future.
> > 
> > The recent thread on ports-developers@ has shown that our users, you
> > and us need to know who to contact WRT policies, suggestions and
> > potential problems.
> > I'm sure all of us have had enough experiences with call call-centers
> > and "support at some.thing" to know how nice is to be able to know some
> > real faces besides impersonal things.
> > 
> > Please list in that wiki page the string that appears in the MAINTAINER
> > field of the Makefiles of the ports you oversee, so that a search on the
> > wiki returns something.
> > 
> > At minimum, you should list the mail address and the emails of the
> > committers in the team. Of course, the team membership is to restricted
> > to committers.
> > 
> > Example:
> > 
> > team-alias@   (this corresponds to a mail alias team-alias at FreeBSD.org
> > 					or mailinglist at FreeBSD.org)
> > Members:
> > committer1@
> > committer2@
> > committer3@
> > user1 at explample.com
> > user2 at explample.org
> > ....
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for helping make FreeBSD better and easier  :)
> 
> 
> -- 
> IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
>   "Intellectual Property" is   nowhere near as valuable   as "Intellect"
> FreeBSD committer -> itetcu at FreeBSD.org, PGP Key ID 057E9F8B493A297B



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