Who was the mental genius

[Dewayne Geraghty]

On 6/06/2014 6:09 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> That decided it was a good idea to completely break ports to force
> people to upgrade?  You couldn't come up with a warning system instead
> of outright breaking ports?  The idiots are apparently running the
> asylum.  {{sigh}}
>

Are you referring to the /usr/ports/UIDs going away?  I experienced a
ports build failure attributable to that.  Fortunately the person
responsible redressed within 62 minutes.  But it does raise the spectre
of change control over components that are effectively live. 

It would be nice if /usr/ports/Mk experienced a change control regime
that the base operating system uses - beta testing, release testing,
deployment; and the files within /usr/ports should probably fall into
that category, not the directory tree which port maintainers and
commiters change to keep time variable applications up-to-date.

Regards, Dewayne.