From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 13:47:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A5116A51A for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 13:47:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: from ritamari.vonostingroup.com (ritamari.vonostingroup.com [216.144.193.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56ABC43D5C for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 13:46:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: from adsl-68-72-248-38.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net ([68.72.248.38] helo=[192.168.1.33]) by ritamari.vonostingroup.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FiXDr-000Dym-6m; Tue, 23 May 2006 09:46:55 -0400 Message-ID: <44731249.9080100@vonostingroup.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:46:49 -0400 From: Frank Laszlo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Conor McDermottroe References: <20060523012528.GA8161@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060523121638.GA88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> <44730BC2.8000509@vonostingroup.com> <20060523134217.GB88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> In-Reply-To: <20060523134217.GB88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 OpenPGP: url=http://www.franksworld.org/~laszlof/keys/0x0B3FCA4B.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ritamari.vonostingroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - vonostingroup.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: FreeBSD Ports , Andrew Pantyukhin , Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Number of maintainers vs. number of ports 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, 23 May 2006 13:47:00 -0000 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