From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 08:57:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B371E1065675; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:57:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (77-99-36-42.cable.ubr04.chap.blueyonder.co.uk [77.99.36.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C278FC15; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:57:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dns1.vizion2000.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F67F1CC71; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:03:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by dns1.vizion2000.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m6D93B1O035825; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@vizion2000.net) X-Authentication-Warning: dns1.vizion2000.net: david set sender to david@vizion2000.net using -f From: David Southwell Organization: Voice and Vision To: Garrett Cooper Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:03:11 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <8878A47C-C488-444F-BA53-2D1E1255F99E@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8878A47C-C488-444F-BA53-2D1E1255F99E@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807130203.11912.david@vizion2000.net> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: RFC : Add ports "status update" page to the FreeBSD wiki X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:57:05 -0000 On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:52:43 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello doc'ers, > Before going and making a change to the Wiki, I was wondering whether > or not folks would be receptive to adding a "meta-page" to track ports > updates for larger / fairly dependent packages, such as Perl, Python, > KDE, Gnome, X.org, etc for purposes of reducing long email threads > with little benefit, like the following: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049609.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049616.html > > (Both are from the same mail thread, but just were filed differently > in mailman). > The issue is that sometimes ports progress can go 'unpublicized' for > some time and people aren't aware of why port(s) x-y-z hasn't/haven't > been updated yet, even though it's/they have been 'stable' (in this > case Perl) for months. > Thanks, > -Garrett Sounds a very good idea to me - especially in view of recent experience!! Thank you David