Ports version upping policy?
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org
Tue Apr 12 05:28:13 PDT 2005
Le Mardi 12 avril 2005 à 08:24 -0400, Dan Langille a écrit :
> On 12 Apr 2005 at 14:17, Florent Thoumie wrote:
>
> > Le Mardi 12 avril 2005 à 08:12 -0400, Dan Langille a écrit :
> > > On 12 Apr 2005 at 13:26, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes, I've asked Dan Langille to add a special notice for these
> > > > ports so that people know they are unmaintained. Maybe we should
> > > > think about it again. Dan ?
> > >
> > > What sort of notice are you thinking of?
> >
> > "The maintainer of this port is ports at FreeBSD.org, that means
> > the port is currently unmaintained and that here may be delays
> > between port updates."
>
> How about:
>
> "There is no maintainer for this port. Updates may be delayed."
Fine with me, the shorter the better.
> > Maybe you can add another note saying that mail sent to ports@
> > go to the freebsd-ports@ mailing list.
>
> "Any concerns regarding this port should be directed to the FreeBSD
> Ports mailing list via freebsd-ports at FreeBSD.org."
Actually, that's what people do when using the link next to
"Maintained by". I'm not sure how to explain this clearly with
few words. Maybe "Maintained by: ports at FreeBSD.org
(freebsd-ports@ mailing list)".
--
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org
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