From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 04:50:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 C83D016A41C; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 04:50:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from db@db.net) Received: from heceta.db.net (heceta.db.net [142.46.199.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A27743D4C; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 04:50:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from db@db.net) Received: from heceta.db.net ([142.46.199.182] helo=localhost ident=mailnull) by heceta.db.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 4.8) id 1DdhgU-000Pco-3X; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:51:58 -0400 Received: from localhost.dbn ([127.0.0.1] helo=night.db.net) by night.db.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50 (FreeBSD)) id 1DdhgL-000DYw-Gg; Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:51:49 -0400 Received: (from db@localhost) by night.db.net (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j524pnpl052137; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:51:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from db@night.dbn) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:51:49 -0400 From: Diane Bruce To: Adam Weinberger Message-ID: <20050602045149.GA51934@night.db.net> References: <20050601222033.B49205@x12.dk> <429E67ED.6040508@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <429E67ED.6040508@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Soeren Straarup , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New Category how? 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: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:50:43 -0000 On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:59:09PM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: > Soeren Straarup wrote: > >Hi > > > >We are some ham operators that wishes for a hamradio category. > >Is that possible? > > > >Should i make the category's files and send a pr and then send pr's > >for all the ports that relates to it? > > > >Best regards S?ren Straarup > > This question has been asked many times before with regards to many > categories. And the answer is always the same: demonstrate that such a As it stands now, there are at least 20 hamradio ports most of which are in comms. One of which is in astro, "sattrack". ("sattrack" is used by amateur radio operators in the same way that "predict" and "gpredict" are used, for amateur radio satellite operation. "predict" and "gpredict" are in comms.) > category is necessary, and it can be created. However, take note at the > number of ports in the smallest category, and recognize that many people > see categories that small as a lapse in judgement. I'd say that 20 is worth it considering the efforts now underway by a number of BSD amateur radio operators. I know with a dedicated category, we could attract more users to FreeBSD. The port count for amateur radio has been steadily increasing in comms in the last year, and we are going to be continuing to grow the number of amateur radio ports. ls -l /usr/ports/vietnamese/ |wc -l 21 There are also several amateur radio ports in the works by two or three of us. (including me) - Diane Bruce, VA3DB