From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 8 20: 9:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2969437B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A641643E6A for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 20:09:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C406181457; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:39:26 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:39:26 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Help wanted with article series "Trawling the Ports Collection" Message-ID: <20021009030926.GG1415@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A few months back I started writing a series in Daemon News entitled "Trawling the Ports Collection". The idea was to show off some of the neat things in the Ports Collection which people might otherwise gloss over. Things didn't quite turn out the way I wanted. I found that it took a long time for me to find interesting ports, more time than I had available, and the result was decidedly second-rate. I still think the idea is good, it's just a question of time. I can see two solutions, both of them requiring help from *you*: - You, as a ports maintainer, write an article about one of your favourite ports. - You, as a ports maintainer, get together with me and together we'll write and article about one of your favourite ports. I'm happy either way. It would be nice to coordinate it, though, so that we only have one article per month. Well, that sounds like a good idea, anyway. Since the articles aren't supposed to be FreeBSD-specific, it would also be very good if the ports were also available on NetBSD and OpenBSD (or at least one of them; might encourage somebody to port it to the other platform :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message