Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:46:49 -0400 From: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> To: Conor McDermottroe <ports@mcdermottroe.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Number of maintainers vs. number of ports Message-ID: <44731249.9080100@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <20060523134217.GB88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> References: <cb5206420605220417o5a5d8667l648f42644f39d4e4@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420605220528k1be0bc03t1c74c6c8e08f35b4@mail.gmail.com> <20060523012528.GA8161@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060523121638.GA88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> <44730BC2.8000509@vonostingroup.com> <20060523134217.GB88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:18:58AM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
>
>> Conor McDermottroe wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:25:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Nevertheless, I'd still like to see more maintaine{rs,d ports}. We
>>>> now have a nice document about "what it means to be a maintainer", so
>>>> I think we should start doing some outreach to bring new people in.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Perhaps we should encourage users to look at the ports they have
>>> installed that are unmaintained and think about volunteering to maintain
>>> them?
>>>
>>> A script similar to the one below may be helpful (apologies in advance
>>> if my shell-fu is weak). When I ran it, it surprised me to see that
>>> ports like lang/ruby18 and misc/compat5x are unmaintained. (Oh, for the
>>> time...)
>>>
> -- SNIP SCRIPT --
>
>> The INDEX file is really better suited for such things. Heres a quick
>> example.
>>
> -- SNIP SCRIPT --
>
> True, if you want to see all of the unmaintained ports. I was aiming at
> showing people only the ports /they have installed/ that are
> unmaintained. I don't expect people to adopt ports that they don't even
> use themselves. :-)
>
> -C
>
>
Ahh, good point! I still think that the INDEX file would be better than
doing `make -V MAINTAINER` for the ports though. :)
-Frank
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44731249.9080100>