Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:12:50 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: david@vizion2000.net, doc@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RFC : Add ports "status update" page to the FreeBSD wiki Message-ID: <02007915-873C-4889-A42D-77CD7B98B59D@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8878A47C-C488-444F-BA53-2D1E1255F99E@gmail.com> References: <8878A47C-C488-444F-BA53-2D1E1255F99E@gmail.com>
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On Jul 12, 2008, at 4:52 PM, 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 I read through and apparently there already is sort of a TODO list for KDE, but not for gnome, and not for any other important projects. Just thought I'd note that before someone else does... Thanks, -Garrett
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