From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 24 14:13:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501C916A404 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beckman@purplecow.com) Received: from thermonuclear.org (thermonuclear.org [70.164.19.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC13113C474 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:13:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beckman@purplecow.com) Received: from thermonuclear.org (beckman@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thermonuclear.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l1ODfSLW082218 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:41:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from beckman@purplecow.com) Received: from localhost (beckman@localhost) by thermonuclear.org (8.13.6/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id l1ODfSNR082215 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:41:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from beckman@purplecow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: thermonuclear.org: beckman owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:41:28 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Beckman X-X-Sender: beckman@thermonuclear.org To: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070224023538.GC34523@nowhere> Message-ID: <20070224083652.L53742@thermonuclear.org> References: <20070224023538.GC34523@nowhere> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: Audacity needs a loving family 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: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:13:44 -0000 On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Craig Boston wrote: > I'm currently the maintainer for the Audacity port, however I haven't > had much free time lately and it needs some attention. Previously I was > in a position that I needed this software almost daily, however due to a > chance in circumstances a while back I only rarely use it now. > > If there is anyone who feels like they have the time to dedicate to it > and wants to take over maintainership please let me know. There's a few > issues with it that need to be kept in mind and I'd like to make sure > that information gets passed on. I'm cc-ing Jack as he maintains the > audacity-devel port and may be interested. > > In the meantime I'm going to at least try to get the latest stable > release working over the weekend (there's a PR about it with a patch but > it didn't work on i386 when I tried). I don't want the port to be > without a maintainer, so I'll keep it so long as nobody steps up, but > can only make best-effort guarantees about timeliness. I'm not interested in maintainership of Audacity, but your post did bring up a thought. I think it would make sense to have a wiki for maintainers where they can keep notes, documentation and special circumstances information about ports. Add links to the definitive source of the code, a short history, a link to the CVS/SVN repository changelog, and as Craig mentioned above a listing of "a few issues ... that need to be kept in mind." This way even if Craig got hit by a beer truck (God forbid), the knowledge Craig gained during his maintainership would live on. One section per port, and ports could link to eachother (dependencies). A tool could be written that would generate the baseline documentation on the fly (or at least generated as text to be copied and pasted into the wiki to save time). A default template and instructions/guidelines would be strongly encouraged to keep the documentation consistent. Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@purplecow.com http://www.purplecow.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------