From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 13 00:15:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6AD1065670 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4315D8FC08 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so5312933rvf.43 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:15:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:cc :x-mailer; bh=ksf34WAYHDVtnKlj2i7oHrbhb9BsDJOIQEtf+ih+KQo=; b=WqVwkuqzVzhDeZyF/0weE/87PcsOekLymOFgPAudVkNqOZvHgj3/mCblKU846/zKik 2jMfI+nwKXTcxFQQuPs/PoiWRWNgA6qWjtbL/gqfGTEyts3KBiYAiOF7q93PoB1ixrjL 5NGSzUZkISlVPya62jcqpNruRrlPN/dQ7JuJY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version:subject:date:cc:x-mailer; b=wP0JAOozntFGAAVuYjv87iaujpyUcMbWQwImOdw184lUbNmVJhObkL4Yacawb53qJn 2WniIvUjxr1FNrqieCtu2aAaHZ49Z3sSLKTbaBawwMd3dDdGdgPYoLRM31QAJwe3p5xW /4Hs2rkk1WmnZkNeYrk524YsQZa6w0zIh/S3U= Received: by 10.141.107.13 with SMTP id j13mr3240022rvm.276.1215906707361; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.10.42? ( [76.254.4.131]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l31sm4870039rvb.6.2008.07.12.16.51.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:51:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <8878A47C-C488-444F-BA53-2D1E1255F99E@gmail.com> From: Garrett Cooper To: doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:52:43 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) Cc: david@vizion2000.net, Garrett Cooper Subject: RFC : Add ports "status update" page to the FreeBSD wiki X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:15:49 -0000 Hello doc'ers, Before going and making a change to the Wiki, I was wondering whether or not folks would be receptive to adding a "meta-page" to track ports updates for larger / fairly dependent packages, such as Perl, Python, KDE, Gnome, X.org, etc for purposes of reducing long email threads with little benefit, like the following: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049609.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049616.html (Both are from the same mail thread, but just were filed differently in mailman). The issue is that sometimes ports progress can go 'unpublicized' for some time and people aren't aware of why port(s) x-y-z hasn't/haven't been updated yet, even though it's/they have been 'stable' (in this case Perl) for months. Thanks, -Garrett