Bug 100446 - relinquish maintainership
Summary: relinquish maintainership
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody)
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-07-17 20:20 UTC by Vick Khera
Modified: 2006-07-18 11:46 UTC (History)
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2006-07-17 21:01 UTC, Vick Khera
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Description Vick Khera 2006-07-17 20:20:15 UTC
	

RT 3.6 is now released, and that's what I use.  I no longer wish to be responsible
for the older rt34 port.

Fix: 

Please set MAINTAINER in www/rt34 to ports@freebsd.org.  I am only maintaining
the new version of RT now.  Thanks!
Comment 1 Erwin Lansing freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-07-17 20:34:26 UTC
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:14:48PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> 	
> >Description:
> RT 3.6 is now released, and that's what I use.  I no longer wish to be responsible
> for the older rt34 port.
> 	
> >Fix:
> Please set MAINTAINER in www/rt34 to ports@freebsd.org.  I am only maintaining
> the new version of RT now.  Thanks!

How about marking DEPRECATED and set an expiration date as well?

-erwin

-- 
Erwin Lansing                                     http://droso.org
Security is like an onion.          (o_ _o)
It's made up of several layers   \\\_\   /_///    erwin@FreeBSD.org
And it makes you cry.            <____) (____>    erwin@aauug.dk
Comment 2 Vick Khera 2006-07-17 21:01:07 UTC
On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Erwin Lansing wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:14:48PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
>> 	
>>> Description:
>> RT 3.6 is now released, and that's what I use.  I no longer wish  
>> to be responsible
>> for the older rt34 port.
>> 	
>>> Fix:
>> Please set MAINTAINER in www/rt34 to ports@freebsd.org.  I am only  
>> maintaining
>> the new version of RT now.  Thanks!
>
> How about marking DEPRECATED and set an expiration date as well?

There are folks who will need it for a while and cannot upgrade  
immediately (like with older FreeBSD releases...) so I don't know  
what a good expiration date would be.

I don't know when Best Practical will stop supporting it.

Perhaps someone else will pick it up?

If it is marked for expiration, can it be rescued by someone who is  
willing to maintain it?  If so, then I'm all for expiring it away  
after a long period, perhaps a year.


Comment 3 Erwin Lansing freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-07-17 21:10:42 UTC
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:01:07PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> 
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Erwin Lansing wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:14:48PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>	
> >>>Description:
> >>RT 3.6 is now released, and that's what I use.  I no longer wish  
> >>to be responsible
> >>for the older rt34 port.
> >>	
> >>>Fix:
> >>Please set MAINTAINER in www/rt34 to ports@freebsd.org.  I am only  
> >>maintaining
> >>the new version of RT now.  Thanks!
> >
> >How about marking DEPRECATED and set an expiration date as well?
> 
> There are folks who will need it for a while and cannot upgrade  
> immediately (like with older FreeBSD releases...) so I don't know  
> what a good expiration date would be.
> 
> I don't know when Best Practical will stop supporting it.
> 
> Perhaps someone else will pick it up?
> 
> If it is marked for expiration, can it be rescued by someone who is  
> willing to maintain it?  If so, then I'm all for expiring it away  
> after a long period, perhaps a year.
> 
The best would probably be to mark it DEPRECATED pointing to the newer
version but not set an EXPIRATION_DATE. That will prevent new users
from installing it while keeping support for old users.

-- 
Erwin Lansing                                     http://droso.org
Security is like an onion.          (o_ _o)
It's made up of several layers   \\\_\   /_///
And it makes you cry.            <____) (____>    erwin@lansing.dk
Comment 4 Erwin Lansing freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-07-18 11:46:17 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed, thanks!