FreeBSD ports you maintain which are out of date

John Marino freebsd.contact at marino.st
Fri Mar 14 10:50:44 UTC 2014


On 3/14/2014 11:47, John Marino wrote:
> On 3/14/2014 10:30, Philippe Audéoud wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, John Marino wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/14/2014 10:15, portscout at FreeBSD.org wrote:
>>>> Port                                            | Current version | New version
>>>> ------------------------------------------------+-----------------+------------
>>>> games/doomsday                                  | 1.12.2          | 1.14.0-build1168
>>>> ------------------------------------------------+-----------------+------------
>>>
>>> This port squawks constantly.
>>> Can we either get the last submitter to take it over or put it on the
>>> to-be-killed list?  Or tell portscout to ignore it?  Too much noise on
>>> already high volume channel.
>>>
>>> John
>>
>> Hello John,
>>
>> games/doomsday is maintained by ports at .
> 
> Right -- that's why portscout is bombarding the ports@ mail list.  If it
> were maintained we wouldn't see it.
> 
>> games/doomsday is maintained by ports at . Feel free to make it as ignored
>> for portscout.
> 
> Is this the general understanding?  Anytime any committer gets annoyed
> with high-frequency portscout squawks on ports@ we just disable it
> without asking?
> 

I thought I caught this before it went out.
I wanted to suggest that maybe portscout can not send any notice to
ports@ by rule if the port is unmaintained.

what about that?
John


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