Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:17:19 -0600 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: "Charles A. Landemaine" <landemaine@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who is behind the ports? Message-ID: <20061201171719.GC1904@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <e6575a30612010634v262ff562m75ac682c481667aa@mail.gmail.com> References: <e6575a30612010634v262ff562m75ac682c481667aa@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:34:54AM -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote: > How is it possible? We don't know, exactly :-) I wrote a paper recently (the formatting won't be right, but nevertheless ...) http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/ports_overview . It has all the citations you need at the bottom, including "Contributing to the FreeBSD Ports Collection." > How many people are helping porting applications? It looks like we have around 1400 maintainers. Other people help by submitting PRs. > Is there some sort of automation creating so many ports? Creating them is still more an 'art' than a 'science'. However, there's some automation to watch them as they go by: - FreshPorts (www.freshports.org) is oriented towards users and port maintainers, and offers browsable overviews of much interesting data. You can also subscribe to it by email. - portsmon (portsmon.freebsd.org), which I wrote, is more oriented towards ports committers, and focuses more on build errors and problem reports. It pushes out certain reports by email, to maintainers and ports@. mcl
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