Ports version upping policy?

[Florent Thoumie]

Le Vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 08:12 -0400, Dan Langille a écrit :
> On 15 Apr 2005 at 11:09, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 12.04.2005 at 08:50:53 -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > > > 	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)".
> > > 
> > > Have a look at http://beta.freshports.org/archivers/9e/ for an
> > > example.
> > 
> > That's nice. But what I would like to see is an icon for the mainpage
> > where all recent commits are shown. That way, when Kris goes into
> > broken-spree next time, one can easily guess if the port is maintained
> > (and will be fixed by the maintainer) or if it is unmaintained and one
> > should probably submit a PR oneself.
> > 
> > Right now, we have:
> > 
> > [Time Committer] Link-to-Commit-Message
> > name version category another-link {broken|restricted|vulnerable|...} descr
> > 
> > How about adding a red 'U' to that list (similar to 'R' in restricted)
> > if maintainer == ports at freebsd.org ?
> 
> That's easy enough to add.  If someone finds me a really nice U, I'll 
> add it in.

	I'm not sure you'll find a nice 'U' or that people will 
	understand that it means "unmaintained". I can propose a red 
	cross so that people will think "oooh poor port, I wish I could 
	take care of it" or maybe a larger image saying "adopt a port 
	today !".

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org
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