Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:39:42 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Conor McDermottroe <ports@mcdermottroe.com>, Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com>, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Number of maintainers vs. number of ports Message-ID: <20060524213942.GA89895@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060523143814.GA52944@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> References: <cb5206420605220417o5a5d8667l648f42644f39d4e4@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420605220528k1be0bc03t1c74c6c8e08f35b4@mail.gmail.com> <20060523012528.GA8161@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060523121638.GA88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> <44730BC2.8000509@vonostingroup.com> <20060523134217.GB88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> <44731249.9080100@vonostingroup.com> <20060523143814.GA52944@qlovarnika.bg.datamax>
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:38:14PM +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:46:49AM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> >=20
> > Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:18:58AM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> > > =20
> > >> Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> > >> =20
> > >>> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:25:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > >>> =20
> > >>> =20
> > >>>> Nevertheless, I'd still like to see more maintaine{rs,d ports}. We
> > >>>> now have a nice document about "what it means to be a maintainer",=
so
> > >>>> I think we should start doing some outreach to bring new people in.
> > >>>> =20
> > >>>> =20
> > >>> Perhaps we should encourage users to look at the ports they have
> > >>> installed that are unmaintained and think about volunteering to mai=
ntain
> > >>> them?
> > >>>
> > >>> A script similar to the one below may be helpful (apologies in adva=
nce
> > >>> if my shell-fu is weak). When I ran it, it surprised me to see that
> > >>> ports like lang/ruby18 and misc/compat5x are unmaintained. (Oh, for=
the
> > >>> time...)
> > >>> =20
> > > -- SNIP SCRIPT --
> > > =20
> > >> The INDEX file is really better suited for such things. Heres a quick
> > >> example.
> > >> =20
> > > -- SNIP SCRIPT --
> > >
> > > True, if you want to see all of the unmaintained ports. I was aiming =
at
> > > showing people only the ports /they have installed/ that are
> > > unmaintained. I don't expect people to adopt ports that they don't ev=
en
> > > use themselves. :-)
> > >
> > > -C
> > >
> > > =20
> >=20
> > Ahh, good point! I still think that the INDEX file would be better than
> > doing `make -V MAINTAINER` for the ports though. :)
> >=20
>=20
> Here it is:
>=20
> grep -F "`for o in \`pkg_info -qao\` ; do echo "|/usr/ports/${o}|" ; done=
`" /usr/ports/INDEX-6 |grep -i '|ports@freebsd.org|' |cut -f 2 -d '|'
>=20
> with one call to pkg_info and one read of the INDEX file
>=20
> make -C /usr/ports -V INDEXFILE should be used for the index filename.
Nice, I'll see about sending mail to announce with this recipe and a
pointer to the document.
Kris
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