Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:42:17 +0000 From: "Craig Ryhorchuk" <trashcanaccount@hotmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: dthomas53@gmail.com Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <BAY110-F385509AEF52867EFAFAE61BEEC0@phx.gbl>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Steel City Phantom >Sent: March 9, 2006 2:55 PM >To: questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Let's make a FreeBSD ports blog! CCCCOOOL =) > > > 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]<vaaf@broadpark.no> 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 Do you mean something like FreshPorts - http://www.freshports.org/ ? It sounds like they already do a lot of what you want and more. Maybe you could volunteer to add any missing features.
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