Re: Someone using COMPAT_SVR4(_32) ?

[Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost>]

Le 05/09/2017 à 17:29, Jerome Ibanes a écrit :
> Maxime,
>
> > If someone is interested in keeping these features, he or she has to show
> > up within a month starting from now (date of the proposal). The minimum
> > requirement that such a maintainer would have to reach is demonstrating,
> > via patches or commits, that work is being done on improving the security of
> > the features - fixing basic bugs, via audit for example - as well as their
> > reliability - being able to show the functioning of an SVR4 binary being
> > increased as a result of this work.
> > If no maintainer is forthcoming after a month, or the maintenance threshold
> > is not met within a month, the code may be removed. It is to be noted that
> > the code will still be in the source code repository, should people wish to
> > re-instate it in the future. If that should happen, the reasons for removing
> > the code in the first place will have been addressed.
>
> Thanks for the head's up. I am looking into it and will hopefully come up with
> a patch to address this; but my time is very limited, and I would respectfully
> like to ask you to extend this deadline.

The deadline was set by core@, but obviously there is no problem, I/they can
extend it by a month.

Note, however, that maintaining this kind of feature does take time, and
requires a lot of attention; it cannot be done on the fly. I'm not trying to
dissuade you from working on that, quite on the contrary, I just want to make
sure you don't underestimate the amount of work needed (since you say that you
don't have a lot of time).

Regards, and thanks,
Maxime