Deprecation policies (was: svn commit: r347338 - in head/net-p2p: . microdc2 microdc2/files)

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 01:09:50PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> If anything, I think we need to consider becoming more aggressive:
> 
> A port that fails to build on either of the latest two major release
> branches for X months gets deprecated.

Fine by me, however, I'd added that whoever is deprecating it due to
build breakage should try to unbreak it first: sometimes this is very
easy to fix (like with net-p2p/microdc2).

> A port that does not support staging by my birthday gets deprecated.

Agreed; but it seems people are stagifying them as a pretty fast pace
already, so it is not really a problem.

> Any such ports that have been deprecated for two months and not seen
> any work to fix them get removed.

I still don't see the reason to remove ports so promptly.  I would say
half year looks more feasible to me; it also gives more time to build
clusters to recover from occasional sporadic, transient, or network
errors.

./danfe