svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 06:40:46PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> I find no issue with notifying users that portmaster is *currently*
> unmaintained and has open issues, and that support can't *currently*
> be provided for it.
> 
> However, I don't believe we ought take actions that hasten its demise.
> In fact, I believe a statement to the effect that we *want* someone to
> take maintainership in order to avoid further bitrot would be
> worthwhile.

It's funny how easily we deprecate some things (G2, KDE3, pre-KMS X.org,
etc.) yet *want* someone to take maintainership in order to avoid further
bitrot of broken and inferior reimplementation of portupgrade. :-)

> Given what the term 'deprecated' implies, I would use a pre-everything:
> message instead.

That's a good idea actually.

./danfe