From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 22:55:59 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 A47E81065670 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:55:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.59.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622CD8FC08 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.87]) by qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id cNaB1g0031swQuc5FNvzjV; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:55:59 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id cNvx1g01U1f6R9u3bNvy7k; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:55:59 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:55:56 -0700 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:55:56 -0700 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110426225556.GF38579@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> <20110426024122.GA38579@comcast.net> <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net> <20110426141209.0d07bccf@seibercom.net> <20110426184315.GA2320@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <19895.13977.553973.609431@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4DB73EFD.1070502@FreeBSD.org> <20110426181554.6ddd9393@seibercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110426181554.6ddd9393@seibercom.net> 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 22:55:59 -0000 On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 15:15:54 PDT Jerry wrote: > >If no one steps up claiming to need the port, then good riddance. If on >the other hand a user claims a valid use of the port, let them take >responsibility for it or find someone who will. Leaving intact ports >that either don't build, cannot be fetched, etcetera does not really >make a lot of sense. No disagreement here. Just now I ran a query on freshports and found almost 5000 ports with maintainer=ports@FreeBSD.org. That's way too many! My search for "popularity" metrics is intended to point me, as a maintainer, to ports I might want to adopt now, rather than wait for someone to complain about them. Everything *I* use is already maintained, so I've moved on to looking for things other people might need. But I don't want to waste my time on something that nobody uses. :)