Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 20:53:33 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Conor McDermottroe <ports@mcdermottroe.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Number of maintainers vs. number of ports Message-ID: <20060527205224.U1114@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060523121638.GA88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> References: <cb5206420605220417o5a5d8667l648f42644f39d4e4@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420605220528k1be0bc03t1c74c6c8e08f35b4@mail.gmail.com> <20060523012528.GA8161@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060523121638.GA88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net>
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On Tue, 23 May 2006, Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:25:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Perhaps we should encourage users to look at the ports they have
> installed that are unmaintained and think about volunteering to maintain
> them?
Some method of making it easier to build a pkg-plist would help also ...
unless I've missed it along the way? I think that that is the part of
updating ports I maintain that I hate the most, and one reason why I avoid
ones that install alot of files :(
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