From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 21:28:43 2005 Return-Path: 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 7671D16A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:28:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out012.verizon.net (out012pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023E943D2F for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:28:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reso3w83@verizon.net) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.26.84.7]) by out012.verizon.net ESMTP <20050214212842.TDJB15978.out012.verizon.net@ringworm.mechee.com>; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:28:42 -0600 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 152B32CE740; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:24:24 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:24:23 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502141324.24089.reso3w83@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out012.verizon.net from [4.26.84.7] at Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:28:42 -0600 cc: Mark Linimon Subject: Re: Unmaintained ports [was: Re: Unmaintained ports with fetch errors] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:28:43 -0000 On Monday 14 February 2005 12:59 pm, Mark Linimon wrote: > Following up to my own post, the _truly_ brave can use portsmon to > show the status of all 3,533 (!) unmaintained ports via: > > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portsconcordanceformaintainer.py?maintai >ner=ports%40FreeBSD.org > > Be patient. This page will take quite some time to load. > > Note: about 10% of these ports have some kind of errorlog on > pointyhat. > > Ports that I was surprised to see listed include: > > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=archivers&portn >ame=rpm > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=devel&portname= >gettext > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=devel&portname= >stlport > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=graphics&portna >me=gphoto2 > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=graphics&portna >me=lcms > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=graphics&portna >me=libglut > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=t >cl83 > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=t >cl84 > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=print&portname= >ghostscript-afpl > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=print&portname= >ghostscript-gnu > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=security&portna >me=libmcrypt > http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=security&portna >me=openssh > > In addition, the games/ and japanese/ categories are in particular > need of help. > > I would surely be nice if we could get more volunteer maintainers. > > mcl > Mark, I'd love to take over gettext. The way that one is packaged has annoyed me for ages. Do I just submit a PR taking over maintainership or do I wait until someone gives the ok? -Mike