From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon Jul 24 13:24:07 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE80BC7E30E for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:24:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@textmail.me) Received: from mail.srv.hagen.coffee (brews.the.best.midnight.coffee [176.9.40.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADE4C68367 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:24:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@textmail.me) Received: from mail.srv.hagen.coffee (unknown [10.0.0.5]) by mail.srv.hagen.coffee (Postfix) with ESMTP id A368653676 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:16:24 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:16:24 +0200 From: Stefan Hagen To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: I would like to maintain and update www/luakit Message-ID: <78a5ba6375201fc8b5a69eabb1102336@textmail.me> X-Sender: freebsd-ports@textmail.me User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3-rc X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:24:08 -0000 Hello All, It looks like www/luakit is not maintained. The program has greatly improved and a new release will be out in the next days. I'm in contact with the developer and I would like to bring it to FreeBSD and maintain it in future. However, this would be my first port. I'm currently working myself through the porter handbook, but I have questions. Is it okay to push these (beginner) questions to this list? Or is someone willing to mentor me in this regard? The first question would be what is best practice when a port greatly changes and will break compatibility with the old port. The current www/luakit port is the webkit1 version from 2012. The current release is a rewrite based on webkit2, which is incomptible to the old configuration files. It won't even start. I can see two approches how to tackle this: a) leave the current www/luakit port as it is and create a new www/luakit-gtk3 with the 2017 release. This would prevent an automatic update for existing users. b) update the existing www/luakit port and add the information about the configuration incompatibility to UPDATING. Any other options? A helping hand would be appreceated. Best Regards, Stefan