[Bug 193453] [STAGE] ports-mgmt/prhistory: Enable STAGE support, Take Maintainership

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--- Comment #7 from John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to C Hutchinson from comment #6)
> Well, yes. Sure. I understand (some|many) may feel it's [shall we say]
> less-than-desirable. But I think it can be improved, and yes, I think
> the time to do it, is worth it. :)
> I don't know that bugzilla is necessarily the best-thing-since-sliced-bread,
> either. They both have their pluses, and minuses. Kinda' like the argument
> over SVN-v-CVS | FreeBSD-v-Linux -- depends upon who you're talking to.
> No? :)

I actually don't think those are comparable.
GNATS has a bunch of fundamental issues due to when it was designed.  And some
of those design issues can't be blamed on "back then everything was on one
system and we all trusted each other".  For example, the decision to let the
submitter decide the criticality level of their own PR is asinine.  Everything
thinks their little problem is the near the end of the world and that everyone
cares (ofc, the rest of us think it's trivial at best).

I honestly don't think anybody (except maybe you) would start a new GNATS
system.  Not with the current design, and not with improvements added.  You
could literally be only consumer of gnats4 with a possible exception of
somebody that wants to archive the FreeBSD database (not to use, but only for
archival purposes).


> As to better being a "new port". I guess I don't have a real issue with
> that. It just seemed trivial to make it generic enough to work with [any]
> gnats4. So I thought it worth keeping it in the tree. With the intention
> of making it use _any_ gnats4 bug||database. In the _very_ near future.
> While also adding support for the [current] (bugzilla) pr(1), used now.

I don't see why somebody that wanted bugzilla wouldn't just open a browser. 
These PRs must be nearly unreadable in a straight text form.


> In the end. I'll let you decide. My life won't come to an end, which ever
> choice you make. ;) I can re-introduce it, if need be.

I vote to let this port die.
If you do succeed in modifying the source to make it generic and you find out
that there's a demand for it (other than yourself) then we can bring it back
pretty easily.  I don't want to bring it back on a promise that it will be
fixed later.  Fix it first, that's my feeling.

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