Abandoned JDK Ports
Joshua Root
jmr at macports.org
Thu Jan 23 11:42:07 UTC 2025
On 23/1/2025 11:41, Nils Breunese wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I maintain quite a few JDK-related (Java Development Kit) ports, but
> there are also 17 JDK ports that have @usersxx as their maintainer [0].
> This GitHub user’s profile doesn’t show any contributions after June
> 2023 and the associated email address is bouncing. Most of these ports
> are for JDK versions that have already reached end of life, but there
> are also Long Term Support releases in the list (8, 11 and 17).
>
> Shall I create a pull request to remove @usersxx as the maintainer of
> these ports? I may want to adopt some myself.
>
> Nils.
>
> [0] https://ports.macports.org/search/?
> selected_facets=maintainers_exact:usersxx <https://ports.macports.org/
> search/?selected_facets=maintainers_exact:usersxx>
Please file a Port Abandoned ticket as per the procedure:
<https://guide.macports.org/chunked/project.update-policies.html#project.update-policies.abandonment>
The PR to remove the current maintainer and optionally add a new one
would then close that ticket.
- Josh
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