From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 9 00:06:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1536116A4CE; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:06:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zaphod.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500F143D3F; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:06:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simon@zaphod.nitro.dk) Received: by zaphod.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 3000) id 35B48119BD; Tue, 9 Nov 2004 01:06:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 01:06:11 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Sam Nilsson Message-ID: <20041109000610.GD5677@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <20041107191051.GK753@zaphod.nitro.dk> <1099861112.942.8.camel@hood.oook.cz> <20041107231734.GA4435@zaphod.nitro.dk> <418F3FC9.1060000@servingpeace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="at6+YcpfzWZg/htY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <418F3FC9.1060000@servingpeace.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ and replacing with FreshPorts X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:06:13 -0000 --at6+YcpfzWZg/htY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2004.11.08 01:43:37 -0800, Sam Nilsson wrote: > Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > >Second I don't really think /ports/ (the web site) is that that > >critical. If it was, more people would have complained that for a > >very long time the ports web pages were very out-of-date. >=20 > Maybe not experienced users, but I think that many newbies wouldn't know= =20 > that the pages were out of date. No, it wasn't really possible to see either unless one chekked count of the ports at the bottom of http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ , but the pages were based on information from the last release (the INDEX file =66rom CVS). > I personally find the freebsd ports page to be much more straightforward= =20 > and userfriendly especially at first. Once one is accustomed to ports=20 > and freshports.org, they may not use /ports/ anymore, but as a newbie,=20 > it is really nice to have. OK nice to know. It's a bit hard to see just from the web server statistics if people actually use the content of the /ports/ pages. > Of course, as I said, I didn't know about the pages being out of date.=20 > Has that problem been addressed or is that the real issue here and I'm=20 > just totally missing the point (in which case sorry)? It has been fixed about a month ago (I think it was), so they should now in general not be more than 12 hours out-of-date compared to the actual state of the Ports Collection in the FreeBSD CVS repository. The reason for proposing to remove /ports/ was that I personally don't find the pages very useful, compared to freshports, and I have heard others say the same thing. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team --at6+YcpfzWZg/htY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBkAnyh9pcDSc1mlERAi9EAJ0ctvI75q/3d1YSatCex57JiCloLQCeNglA iIaUnseItPnTOUHm1LV3i+k= =JuoR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --at6+YcpfzWZg/htY--