From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 9 19:55:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6576616A420 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:55:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scphantm@yahoo.com) Received: from ms-smtp-05.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-05-smtplb.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.5.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116EA43D49 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:55:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scphantm@yahoo.com) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (242669hfc134.tampabay.res.rr.com [24.26.69.134]) by ms-smtp-05.tampabay.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k29JtOll011157 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:55:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <44108831.4070400@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:55:29 -0500 From: Steel City Phantom User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060226) To: questions@freebsd.org References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060308204431.0225c438@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Let's make a FreeBSD ports blog! CCCCOOOL =) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:55:27 -0000 This is a useful idea, but i don't think you have to go and develop a whole new site to make it happen. simply take the existing ports search application ([1]www.freebsd.com/ports) and make some small modifications to it. stuff like when the search results come up, when you click on the name of the app, instead of taking you to the CVS, it takes you to the blog for that app where the long description is the starting article. then you can add all the rating stuff and whatever you want below that. also, a link to the homepage for the app would be nice. im constantly searching freebsd ports and then in another tab searching google for the app i just found to figure out what in the world it is. i realize it would be double work for some maintainers but it can be written to be fairly automated im sure. and the port maintainers can just leave it up to the users to maintain the blog part if they like. David Stanford wrote: Vaaf, 14,187 ports... [2]http://www.freebsd.org/ports/. Sounds like a good idea to me. What kind of help are you looking for? -David On 3/8/06, Kristian Vaaf [3] wrote: Hey! There are about 10.000 ports, am I right? Not all FreeBSD users have the time to go through all of the package descriptions. But definitely all FreeBSD users have their share of favorite ports, and are interested in finding new ports that may compliment their lives. Not is the ports collection already too big for the average human intellect. It also continues to span. New programs appear on a daily basis, however there's nothing to grasp their presence and determine their quality I see this as a chance to promote FreeBSD to desktop users, which is what this project lacks. It has everything to make it superior to all the other open source operating systems, but nothing to really let it out in the open. Imagine a FreeBSD ports blog that tries to gather data on the most popular ports, sorted by ratings, downloads etc. In addition, it posts articles every now and then telling people about recent discoveries made among all the 10.000 ports. This could be a great thing! I am aware of freshports.org, this would be totally different. I know a thing or two about design, and could make the site look something like lounge72.com or linkdup.com. I have high speed hosting all standing by. A splendid name for it as well :D So, who's game? :) All the best, Vaaf _______________________________________________ [4]freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list [5]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " [6]freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ [7]freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list [8]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [9]"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" References 1. http://www.freebsd.com/ports 2. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ 3. mailto:vaaf@broadpark.no 4. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 5. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 6. mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org 7. mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 8. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions 9. mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org