From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 00:11:54 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 BB3021065672 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:11:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E9388FC18 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:11:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so5312034rvf.43 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:11:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=R5pVwu0oknDQuHQjHnisldNv4C7NbxC0Pg3MPqyw210=; b=gqObMUmTLL2dqJ6hvSU2TUjx9tLNlFpW58LV+3oybT+JDoct8xnsz/R9yeHhe3+DJg MBVlqLIlRRQ8gYmMBKh1SYw0YkZGW0WTb1+uMVg3337M5Yqsnl3iDvsNxL5QfO5mGMOz YB2u+ubLL8KcGkRLr8G9FBtYKpjZzAjugRDa0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=s/hpUGwZfxC/GKEknm4sFVEJvwI6myArcEJ3Ng5a1aDeBvyDxIFER5223RQbzp2caX M1z3kXE+qYXSjg63EAa+e+1YLv9QI3D2fJhh5VvOODTJjRhMt49BX1q2Czu0oS+PO6Q0 nvaYxwCpTEsr04iDtIpr4LqT/rEaJQSumoXzM= Received: by 10.141.89.13 with SMTP id r13mr5564975rvl.88.1215907913870; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.10.42? ( [76.254.4.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c20sm4730763rvf.1.2008.07.12.17.11.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <02007915-873C-4889-A42D-77CD7B98B59D@gmail.com> From: Garrett Cooper To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: <8878A47C-C488-444F-BA53-2D1E1255F99E@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:12:50 -0700 References: <8878A47C-C488-444F-BA53-2D1E1255F99E@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) Cc: david@vizion2000.net, 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 00:11:54 -0000 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