Ports version upping policy?

[Dan Langille]

On 15 Apr 2005 at 11:09, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:

> On Tue, 12.04.2005 at 08:50:53 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > 	Actually, that's what people do when using the link next to
> > > 	"Maintained by". I'm not sure how to explain this clearly with
> > > 	few words. Maybe "Maintained by: ports at FreeBSD.org
> > > 	(freebsd-ports@ mailing list)".
> > 
> > Have a look at http://beta.freshports.org/archivers/9e/ for an
> > example.
> 
> That's nice. But what I would like to see is an icon for the mainpage
> where all recent commits are shown. That way, when Kris goes into
> broken-spree next time, one can easily guess if the port is maintained
> (and will be fixed by the maintainer) or if it is unmaintained and one
> should probably submit a PR oneself.
> 
> Right now, we have:
> 
> [Time Committer] Link-to-Commit-Message
> name version category another-link {broken|restricted|vulnerable|...} descr
> 
> How about adding a red 'U' to that list (similar to 'R' in restricted)
> if maintainer == ports at freebsd.org ?

That's easy enough to add.  If someone finds me a really nice U, I'll 
add it in.
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