math/ess, deprecate or change maintainership

Kubilay Kocak koobs at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 13 07:25:50 UTC 2015


On 13/10/2015 5:37 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Emacs Speacks Statistics 15.09, which I maintain as math/ess, has been
> released in the end of September. 
> 
> However, as I outlined in
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2014-November/096678.html,
> I have severe doubts that packages for emacs modes generate any value.
> 
> I do not plan to update math/ess and advocate for deprecating that
> port. Should anybody need math/ess in ports, I would like to hand over
> maintainership to said anybody willing to step in.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Hi Christopher,

Please feel free to submit a bugzilla issue with title:

math/ess: Reset maintainership

Also include a patch updating the MAINTAINER line to ports at freebsd.org

And finally, THANK YOU for contributing to FreeBSD, we hope to see you
back here soon :)

./koobs


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