From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 11:48:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32B616A4D0 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:48:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B68243D48 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:48:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 188AB14712; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:48:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:48:19 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon X-X-Sender: linimon@pancho To: Michael Ranner In-Reply-To: <200401131936.19411.mranner@inode.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:14:41 -0800 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status reports - why not regularly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:48:22 -0000 > We should not reinvent the wheel, if someone like to cover > information about FreeBSD ports he should support freshports.org. I don't think I made my point well. Let me try again ... For daily ports changes (changes to individual ports) freshports is indeed indispensible and deserves our support. In fact, I see that one of the other BSDs has a monthtly summary of "all ports that changed" and frankly it's too much information to sift through -- freshports really "feels" better for this purpose. What I'm talking about is any changes made that will affect multiple ports -- sometimes, like the changes Joe just posted w/rt bsd.gnome.mk; sometimes, like "changes to the sdl2 port have just been made, which affects N ports". (Possibly even "changes to the sdl2 port are not allowed right now because it would affect N ports, sigh.) Really, there are only 1 or 2 a month that fit my rough idea of what is relevant to a wider audience. Perhaps this makes it clearer what I was trying to say. mcl