From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 16:47:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69261106566B for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:47:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E1D18FC13 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:47:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.88]) by qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id cEpf1g00A1u4NiLA5GaSql; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:34:26 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta21.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id cGaQ1g00X1f6R9u8hGaRu0; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:34:26 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:34:24 -0700 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:34:24 -0700 From: Charlie Kester To: FreeBSD Ports Message-ID: <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Ports References: <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> <20110426024122.GA38579@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.4.2.3i X-Composer: Vim 7.3 Subject: Re: saving a few ports from death X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:47:37 -0000 On Mon 25 Apr 2011 at 22:55:10 PDT Ade Lovett wrote: > >On Apr 25, 2011, at 21:41 , Charlie Kester wrote: >> Maybe freshports could implement a voting system like the one at >> osx.iusethis.com? > >"Voting" implies some kind of democracy. I just thought it might be useful to get some actual data to support the inference that an unmaintained port is likely to be an unused and therefore unneeded port. I have no objection to your argument that what gets done is what someone is willing to do. And I am sensitive to the fact that every port imposes some additional burden on the system. I'm all for cleaning out the cruft. I'm not a web programmer and don't have access to the freshports sourcecode. So all I can do there is make a suggestion. But perhaps I'll take some time to go through the list of unmaintained ports and manually check them against the popularity ratings on a site like freshmeat. It's a bit of a leap to assume that a program that's popular on Linux will be as popular on BSD, but it's the best data we have for the time being.