suggestion for package website

[Emmanuel Hainry]

Citando Jeremy Lavergne :
> I was perusing Arch's website today and noticed there's a "flag package 
> out-of-date" link when you're viewing information about a package.  Is 
> this something we might find worthwhile for MacPorts since not everything 
> has a livecheck?
>
> I presume it can put a community-initiated flag of "might be out of  
> date" on the page and fire an email off to the maintainer (or if open-/ 
> no-maintainer to the dev list).
>

I have a few ports that I keep voluntarily in an out-of-date state
(because the newer version does not compile without work and does not
add any useful feature). If someone finds it is worth updating, then he
can spend the time to open a trac ticket requesting an update. This way,
it is possible to explain why not update it.

I feel that a feature request must put a little work on the requester as
it can give a lot of work to the maintainer.


Emmanuel
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