From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 16:04:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 180E616A41F for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:04:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A63043D6A for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 16:04:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t14so445846wxc for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:04:24 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=RhOKZx4eUFNpUCLdLpLOyCCJKGfR0swZkaIUKdM0+uTIMTw1aNBDfnsGVwoHUclek1OhmHhS5YPhrfJknAqo2+mLBxYvl1IJAuLnRGCg6ThiL1IV0wt6VcPp9V11VJIs0D0GhtZgrY28AIawbpXU4msSrFTx26lerBXlReSAuM0= Received: by 10.70.24.6 with SMTP id 6mr5132875wxx; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:04:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ( [71.102.14.129]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i17sm3267125wxd.2005.11.07.08.04.21; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:04:23 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 07:55:39 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051107154634.GA40923@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <20051107154634.GA40923@heechee.tobez.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511070755.40250.ringworm01@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Anton Berezin Subject: Re: Request for comments: port-tags 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: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:04:35 -0000 On Monday 07 November 2005 07:46, Anton Berezin wrote: > Hi folks, > > I would like to point http://bsd2.be/port-tags/ to you, and hopefully > get you to check it out and make your comments and suggestions. > > Below is the contents of http://bsd2.be/about-port-tags.html: > > Port-tags is like del.icio.us [http://del.icio.us/] for FreeBSD ports > collection. > > The idea is to make ports classification easier and more convenient. > Instead of using predefined and limited set of port categories, > port-tags uses short one-word descriptions called tags. A port can have > an arbitrary number of tags associated with it. One can use the web > interface (and maybe a command-line interface in the future) to view > only the ports that have particular tags associated with them. This > process is very efficient in narrowing down the number of sought ports. > > Debian has something similar called Debtags > [http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/]. The main difference of Debtags and > port-tags is not the absense or presense of particular frontends. > Rather, Debtags takes potentially more fruitful approach of getting the > community to define the tags, while for now, port-tags uses an > algorithmic approach to deduce the tags from the existing categories and > from ports' COMMENT field. Let's see how this works out and extend it to > a community-based project at a later stage. > > The idea of port-tags came up in a conversation I had with Autrijus Tang > a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I discussed it with various people > (most notably with Lars Thegler, Erwin Lansing, and Florent Thoumie) and > finally implemented it. > > In its current form, the service is not updated live. Instead, as it > depends on the INDEX file, and the index file gets updated once a day, > so does the port-tags database. > > If it looks too similar to del.icio.us, it is because for this early > alpha version I just stole the stylesheets from there. > > If you have any comments and suggestions with regard to port-tags, I > would like to hear about it. Is it useful? How can we make it more > useful? What are the shortcomings? Any show-stoppers which prevent you > from using it? > I'd like to see a copy of the tags data base. Providing it in a similar maner as the INDEX file might come in handly. -Mike