new ports and maintainer

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Fri Jul 25 07:55:04 PDT 2014


On Jul 25, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de> wrote:
> 
> * On 25.07.2014 03:50 pm, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> +1 for this too. I have at least one non-openmaintainer port that went ~9 years between upstream releases - I'm not going to remember to check in a mostly meaningless timestamp update every 6 months just to keep it non-openmaintainer.
> 
> It is busywork.  However, I find it very unlikely that a port doesn't get
> changed at least once every 6 months. Maybe not for updates, but because
> dependencies require a revision bump, a new OS version came out requiring a
> quick fix, or just because base evolved.

this is something we could mine our subversion repo to see if it's true or not (or how true it is).

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