ports/100446: relinquish maintainership

[Erwin Lansing]

The following reply was made to PR ports/100446; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Erwin Lansing <erwin at FreeBSD.org>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/100446: relinquish maintainership
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:10:42 +0200

 On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:01:07PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
 > 
 > On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Erwin Lansing wrote:
 > 
 > >On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:14:48PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
 > >>	
 > >>>Description:
 > >>RT 3.6 is now released, and that's what I use.  I no longer wish  
 > >>to be responsible
 > >>for the older rt34 port.
 > >>	
 > >>>Fix:
 > >>Please set MAINTAINER in www/rt34 to ports at freebsd.org.  I am only  
 > >>maintaining
 > >>the new version of RT now.  Thanks!
 > >
 > >How about marking DEPRECATED and set an expiration date as well?
 > 
 > There are folks who will need it for a while and cannot upgrade  
 > immediately (like with older FreeBSD releases...) so I don't know  
 > what a good expiration date would be.
 > 
 > I don't know when Best Practical will stop supporting it.
 > 
 > Perhaps someone else will pick it up?
 > 
 > If it is marked for expiration, can it be rescued by someone who is  
 > willing to maintain it?  If so, then I'm all for expiring it away  
 > after a long period, perhaps a year.
 > 
 The best would probably be to mark it DEPRECATED pointing to the newer
 version but not set an EXPIRATION_DATE. That will prevent new users
 from installing it while keeping support for old users.
 
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