Re: git: 692cca400331 - main - www/grafana: Mark DEPRECATED and set expiration date

Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> 于2021年11月17日周三 上午11:18写道：
>
> On 17/11/2021 06:21, Guangyuan Yang wrote:
> > Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org> 于2021年11月16日周二 下午5:15写道：
> >> On 16/11/2021 22:56, Guangyuan Yang wrote:
> >>> commit 692cca4003317a6c83fa226feccab3e5ec47ab52
> ...
> >>>       www/grafana: Mark DEPRECATED and set expiration date
> >>>
> >>>       Grafana 1 is no longer maintained upstream years ago. Mark DEPRECATED
> >>>       after the next quarterly cycle.
> >>>
> >>>       PR:             257763
> >>>       Approved by:    robak (maintainer, timeout > 3 months)
> >> Are there any technical reasons why we shouldn't update www/grafana to provide the most recent
> >> Grafana version?
> > I have actually raised this option as well in the PR (257763), but
> > after months of maintainer timeout, I just decided to take the easier
> > route. I think www/grafana tracking the latest Grafana version is a
> > good idea, but the implementation can be a new slave port tracking
> > www/grafana8, or ideally have the same maintainer of www/grafana8. I
> > currently do not have extra cycles for it though, so the first thing
> > is to stop the confusion that www/grafana currently causes.
> Thank you for the explanation. I guess that this project then is up grabs.

For sure, this does not stop anyone from rewriting this port and
removing the DEPRECATED line, and it is up for grabs.

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Guangyuan Yang
ygy@FreeBSD.org