From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 10:18:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2025A106566C for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:18:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de (mailrelay.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.3.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AFB18FC16 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:18:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) Received: from virusscan.mail (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13FE9199100; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:18:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virusscan.mail (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059D21990FC; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:18:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wthp192.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.40.192]) by mailmaster.uni-wuerzburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D05198E74; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:18:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from wep4035 ([132.187.37.35]) by mail.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Lotus Domino Release 8.0.2HF443) with ESMTP id 2009021311181483-63199 ; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:18:14 +0100 Received: by wep4035 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:18:14 +0100 From: "Alexey Shuvaev" Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:18:14 +0100 To: Thomas Abthorpe Message-ID: <20090213101814.GA42225@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <200902121232.30515.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20090212213821.GA12768@lastamericanempire.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090212213821.GA12768@lastamericanempire.com> Organization: Universitaet Wuerzburg User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 8.0.2HF443 | November 25, 2008) at 02/13/2009 11:18:14 AM, Serialize by Router on domino1/uni-wuerzburg(Release 8.0.2HF443 | November 25, 2008) at 02/13/2009 11:18:15 AM, Serialize complete at 02/13/2009 11:18:15 AM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-wuerzburg.de Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for potential ports maintainers 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: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:18:18 -0000 Thomas Abthorpe (Thu 02/12/09 12:32): > > This topic came up in IRC, and I was encouraged to go out, and find some new > maintainers. > > At any given time, approximately 20 - 25% of all ports are unmaintained. Not > all unmaintained ports need updating, but some do. That is where you folks > come in. > > There are a bunch of you out there who are subscribers to this list (and other > FreeBSD related lists too, I am sure), you have FreeBSD installed and likely > have quite an array of ports installed on this system of yours. You are > subscribed as a means of keeping up with the world of FreeBSD. > > But you have been holding back, thinking "I really would like to do something > to contribute to the success of FreeBSD, but I am not sure what." > > How do I know this? I was one, a silent observer on the mailing lists, and in > on IRC. Then one day, I answered a similar plea, > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2006-May/001065.html. > > I have summarised some details on the wiki on Adopting Ports, > http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTasks#head-f018f566bce2ff96ec13fabd536d7cc6dc6f4275. > > The gauntlet has been thrown down, who among you is prepared to pick it up? > Well, if we go so far, could someone (you???) look at net/acx100 and net/gacxtool ports. The related PR 129977 (2 months, still unassigned). The port formally has a maintainer but its current state: BROKEN= Does not compile on FreeBSD >= 6.x DEPRECATED= Has been broken for more than 6 months EXPIRATION_DATE=2008-09-19 says for itself. Related discussion on -CURRENT: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-December/001666.html This is the message from developer saying the driver should work on 7.0: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-December/001709.html More details are in the PR description. Thanks, Alexey.