Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:41:49 -0500 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Cc: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@freebsd.org>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: opinions on porting software in alpha state? Message-ID: <1141702909.1194.26.camel@bofh> In-Reply-To: <1141640501.18845.11.camel@mayday.esat.net> References: <20060305222205.GB926@hades.panopticon> <20060306044446.3af3b840.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> <20060306040134.GA5679@soaustin.net> <1141640501.18845.11.camel@mayday.esat.net>
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On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:21 +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 22:01 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:44:46AM +0100, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 01:22:05 +0300 > > > Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru> wrote: <snip> > > NetBSD has pkgsrc-wip, I think eik and clement used to work on some > external project like this one (hosted on sourceforge). That was Ports Rookies (http://sourceforge.net/projects/portrookies/), the original announcement was here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2035764+2040563 +/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-ports/20031116.freebsd-ports I was never a part of it though but I believe it was created in part due to the PR backlog at the time and as a place to test experimental changes to the ports infrastructure. (Ports Rookies was registered on Source Forge nearly the same week I first installed FreeBSD. Yes, I actually know that. :) OT: Even if Ports Rookies was a total bust from searching the mailing list archives on SF I've always liked one of the other leading ideas behind the project, providing a forum for new submitters/contributors to interact with committers and have their work critiqued and checked. Hanging out on #FreeBSD-Gnome and bugging the committers there was how I started. I know Gnome has two projects for drawing in new contributors, Gnome Love and the Bugsquad. I haven't checked on how they're run or how successful they are though. > Maybe if there > were an official statement about this (and more people working on it), > we could have alpha-quality software/ports there and integrate them > later in the ports collection. > > Additionally, some magical tool to merge ports-wip with ports (maybe > marcuscom's script) would be more than useful. > Don't forget mono-merge from BSD#, we use the same idea too! :) Tom -- | tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org tmclaugh at FreeBSD.org | | FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.org | | BSD# http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:FreeBSD |
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