Removing documentation

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Feb 8 00:02:10 UTC 2016


On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, Torsten Zühlsdorff wrote:

> Hello,
>
>>> You have a tool presented as "official" that hasn't had it's
>>> original maintainer in 4 years and was only kept on life support up
>>> until 9 months ago.
>> 
>> Agreed, the "official" (the term used is "recommended") status is
>> gone.  But that's a reason to fix the documentation, not remove it.
>> As I see it, we have three choices, in increasing order of
>> desirability:
>> 
>> 1.  Remove all mention of portmaster.  That's what this PR recommends.
>> 2.  Do nothing.
>> 3.  Update the documentation to indicate the current status,
>>      recommending alternatives if possible.
>
> Number 4 is missing: find a maintainer for it.
>
> I would volunteer for this. But before a real commitment i need a closer look 
> at it, which i will do next week. So please standby.

Thank you.


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