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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:14 +0300
From:      Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Conor McDermottroe <ports@mcdermottroe.com>, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Number of maintainers vs. number of ports
Message-ID:  <20060523143814.GA52944@qlovarnika.bg.datamax>
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:46:49AM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
>=20
> Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:18:58AM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> >  =20
> >> Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> >>    =20
> >>> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:25:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>>  =20
> >>>      =20
> >>>> 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.
> >>>>    =20
> >>>>        =20
> >>> Perhaps we should encourage users to look at the ports they have
> >>> installed that are unmaintained and think about volunteering to maint=
ain
> >>> 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 t=
he
> >>> time...)
> >>>      =20
> > -- SNIP SCRIPT --
> >  =20
> >> The INDEX file is really better suited for such things. Heres a quick
> >> example.
> >>    =20
> > -- 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
> >
> >  =20
>=20
> Ahh, good point! I still think that the INDEX file would be better than
> doing `make -V MAINTAINER` for the ports though. :)
>=20

Here it is:

grep -F "`for o in \`pkg_info -qao\` ; do echo "|/usr/ports/${o}|" ; done`"=
 /usr/ports/INDEX-6 |grep -i '|ports@freebsd.org|' |cut -f 2 -d '|'

with one call to pkg_info and one read of the INDEX file

make -C /usr/ports -V INDEXFILE should be used for the index filename.

--=20
Vasil Dimov
gro.DSBeerF@dv

Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
                -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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