drop multimedia@ maintainership on some ports

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 20 13:44:37 UTC 2019


On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 01:31:11PM +0100, Jan Beich wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am planning to drop maintainership of some ports actually maintained by
> > multimedia@ to ports@ in order to give a chance to anyone to jump on it and
> > maintain them directly if needed.
> 
> Hmm, I had the opposite reaction from another portmgr@ peer.
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2018-October/189060.html

Interesting I bet we do need to have a portmgr discussion here.
> 
> > The reasoning is that things that are not part of I would say the core
> > multimedia components (libraries mainly) then those are badly maintained by
> > multimedia@
> >
> > In the list of thing I want to release:
> > - multimedia/shotcut
> > - audio/nuvolaplayer
> > - multimedia/dvdstyler
> > - multimedia/subtitleeditor
> > - multimedia/vid.stab
> > - multimedia/webvfx-qt5
> > - www/nuvolaplayer*
> > - x11-toolkits/diorite
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> A lot more can be kicked out but the following are no-brainer:
> 
> - x11/xnee (no more multimedia-related than script(1) with -r/-p)
> - x11-toolkits/diorite (widget for audio/nuvolaplayer)
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