From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 14:38:27 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 95CF716A5A6; Tue, 23 May 2006 14:38:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vd@datamax.bg) Received: from jengal.datamax.bg (jengal.datamax.bg [82.103.104.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BDC243D5D; Tue, 23 May 2006 14:38:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vd@datamax.bg) Received: from qlovarnika.bg.datamax (qlovarnika.bg.datamax [192.168.10.2]) by jengal.datamax.bg (Postfix) with SMTP id 24826B842; Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:14 +0300 (EEST) Received: (nullmailer pid 53122 invoked by uid 1002); Tue, 23 May 2006 14:38:14 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:14 +0300 From: Vasil Dimov To: Frank Laszlo Message-ID: <20060523143814.GA52944@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> References: <20060523012528.GA8161@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060523121638.GA88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> <44730BC2.8000509@vonostingroup.com> <20060523134217.GB88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> <44731249.9080100@vonostingroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44731249.9080100@vonostingroup.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: FreeBSD Ports , Conor McDermottroe , 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 Reply-To: vd@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:38:28 -0000 --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFEcx5WFw6SP/bBpCARAqf7AJ9jnG0iu8KvzNscD4407JBjy1EsQACcCVQb uVDzrlKRRda4QCu6n/KhEwM= =bmqy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8--