What will happen with unstaged ports with pending PRs on June 30th?

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 21 22:46:06 UTC 2014


On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 03:45:53PM +0200, Ivan Rokotov wrote:
> 21.06.2014, 15:37, "Kurt Jaeger" <lists at opsec.eu>:
> > Hi!
> >>  Only 9 days left until the proposed deadline to add staging support
> >>  to all ports. My question is: what will happen that day with unstaged
> >>  ports that have submitted staging patches?
> >
> > From what I understand: Not much for additional 2 month.
> >
> > The plan was to remove the unstaged, deprecated ports beginning of August.
> 
> Well, from this mail:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2014-May/092166.html
> I gather that they will be marked as 'DEPRECATED' and set as non-maintained. DEPRECATED ports can't be installed, AFAIK.
> 
> Nothing is said in the aforementioned mail about ports with pending PRs. I'm not a maintainer myself, but I guess that people won't be happy to have their maintainership reset if they actually did their job.

Port with a PR will be safe anyway, and hopefully the PR will be committed by
then.

A lot of effort has been done recently by ports committers to reduce the PR
queue, the effort will continue.

regards,
Bapt
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