svn commit: r422114 - head/misc/fortune_strfile

[John Marino]

On 9/14/2016 11:40, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> My own opinion is that 4814 is way too many.  And, I don't buy the
>> argument that some have made that "unmaintained ports are better
>> maintained than some maintained ports".
>
> We have the data to go from opinion to knowledge by analyzing
> the commit logs etc. Analyzing it is difficult, but maybe it helps
> to find out where we stand.


I don't think that's necessary to get the actual numbers.
While it's clearly true that some unmaintained ports (aka maintained by 
ports at FreeBSD.org) are better maintained than a significant number of 
maintained ports, I think most people would agree having a maintainer is 
the best situation.

In this particular case:
1) I don't maintain any fortune ports
2) I don't use any fortune ports
3) I don't care if all the fortune ports are deleted
4) The port is about as trivial as they come.

I was only fixing a problem that I identified that should have been 
fixed long before.

If there was a rule that said I had to maintain the port for 1-week or 
1-month or even 6-months, then I'm just dropping the port the next day 
after the expiration period.  It's better to give somebody that actually 
does care a chance to adopt it (the most likely being one of the fortune 
port maintainers).

Finally, most of the games ports are intentionally unmaintained.  Since 
strfile has its origin in games, I really didn't see a distinction with 
fortune_strfile and any of those games.

John

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