[Bug 276537] editors/jove: Port (possibly) incorrectly removed as expired, offer to reinstate and take maintainership

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276537

            Bug ID: 276537
           Summary: editors/jove: Port (possibly) incorrectly removed as
                    expired, offer to reinstate and take maintainership
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: terry-freebsd@glaver.org

MOVED had an entry added a few days ago:
editors/jove||2024-01-18|Has expired: No upstream update in last 23 years

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/editors/jove/ still shows it, so I can't
see which committer removed it.

23 years seemed like a long time, so I checked. The last release on the FTP
server in the Makefile is "Jul 11  2010 jove4.16.0.73.tgz", so only 13 years
8-)

Development seems to have moved to GitHub, where there seems to be an active
development / user community: https://github.com/jonmacs/jove

The latest release is 4.17.5.3 from March 21, 2023.

There seem to be quite a few Jove PR's that were closed with feedback-timeout:
249148, 248588, 247705, etc.

I have a user that relies on this port. Given that "make maintainer" reports
ports@FreeBSD.org, this port seems to be unmaintained.

If no one else is interested, I can look into building the current release and
submitting a diff to have the port reinstated using the current release.
However, I am not a Jove / Emacs user, so I'm probably not the best choice to
be nominated as maintainer.

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