Dead projects in ports tree

[Beech Rintoul]

On Saturday 28 February 2009 17:33:17 Robert Huff wrote:
> perryh at pluto.rain.com writes:
> >  > multimedia/openquicktime - no movement in CVS / SVN for 1+ years;
> >  > no releases in the past 3 years
> >
> >  This strikes me as slim evidence on which to seek a death sentence :)
> >
> >  While I can't testify to the usefulness of this particular port,
> >  the fact that something has not changed in a long time could just
> >  as well mean that it does its job well -- and thus does not need
> >  to be updated -- as that it is no longer useful.
>
> 	Are there criteria - or even guidelines - for when a port
> should be reaped?

Sure, if the port has been broken for more than 6 months, it's abandoned 
(website is gone and port isn't fetchable from outside mirrors) or it's been 
replaced.

Beech
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