From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Nov 22 15:11:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from medusa.mminternet.com (medusa.mminternet.com [216.86.201.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E77A37B4C5 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:11:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from cleanco ([64.148.10.36]) by medusa.mminternet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA07774 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:12:53 -0800 Message-ID: <000801c054d9$fa73bfa0$240a9440@internetconnect.com> From: "Robert Campbell" To: Subject: suggestion Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:14:14 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C05496.DFADA2A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C05496.DFADA2A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, im not sure if this is the right place but i have a couple = suggestions i feel would help. Mainly for the ports...i think the dates the ports are first released = and last updated would be very helpful. It'd almost be nice to have a = rating system that users could rate ports on a scale, and possibly flags = that indicate active maintenance, security maintenence only, or no = longer maintained....so we know which ports are falling behind the times = perhaps. my second suggestion (hopefully taken not too harshly) would be to = perhaps start a hardcore effort at having people make howto's for = freebsd.....yes i know a lot of the linux ones apply...but im sure there = is all sorts of neat howtos people could make....from perhaps simple = stuff from like setting up a printer to specific stuff like moving = services to ssl or something..... if i have sent this to the wrong place, or should contact a different = person for the ports suggestion, please let me know so that i may = correct myself. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Robert ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C05496.DFADA2A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi, im not sure if this is the right place but i = have a couple=20 suggestions i feel would help.

Mainly for the ports...i think the dates the ports = are first=20 released and last updated would be very helpful. It'd almost be = nice to=20 have a rating system that users could rate ports on a scale, and = possibly flags=20 that indicate active maintenance, security maintenence only, or no = longer=20 maintained....so we know which ports are falling behind the times=20 perhaps.

my second suggestion (hopefully taken not too = harshly) would=20 be to perhaps start a hardcore effort at having people make howto's for=20 freebsd.....yes i know a lot of the linux ones apply...but im sure there = is all=20 sorts of neat howtos people could make....from perhaps simple stuff from = like=20 setting up a printer to specific stuff like moving services to ssl or=20 something.....

if i have sent this to the wrong place, or should = contact a=20 different person for the ports suggestion, please let me know so that i = may=20 correct myself. Thank you for taking the time to read = this.

Robert

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