From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 22:09:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFDBB1065672 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:09:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D75F28FC19 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:09:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta23.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.90]) by qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id cN6B1g0011wfjNsA6N9E6L; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:09:14 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta23.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id cN9B1g00j1f6R9u8jN9CUQ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:09:13 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:09:11 -0700 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:09:11 -0700 From: Charlie Kester To: FreeBSD Ports Message-ID: <20110426220911.GE38579@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Ports References: <4DB6165F.1010806@FreeBSD.org> <20110426024122.GA38579@comcast.net> <20110426163424.GB38579@comcast.net> <20110426212747.GC38579@comcast.net> <20110426213400.GD38579@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110426213400.GD38579@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.4.2.3i X-Composer: Vim 7.3 Subject: Re: saving a few ports from death X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:09:15 -0000 On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 14:34:00 PDT Charlie Kester wrote: >On Tue 26 Apr 2011 at 14:27:47 PDT Charlie Kester wrote: >>FWIW, here are some popularity/vitality stats from freshmeat for >>unmaintained ports in the sysutils category. > >Drat, the mailinglist rejected the attachment. If anyone wants to see >it, send me a private email and I'll reply with a copy. Here are the top ten most "popular" unmaintained ports from this category, in case someone's looking for one to adopt: "name" "popularity" "vitality" "k3b" 754.12 120.91 "sg3_utils" 444.46 41.9 "LPRng" 303.65 5.13 "afio" 292.62 2.44 "anteater" 237.11 4.26 "bchunk" 215.97 2.71 "userinfo" 211.26 23.51 "ddrescue" 210.72 8.82 "cpuburn" 207.73 1 "cw" 207.28 11.25 k3b looks like an obvious choice. I restricted my search to this category while hammering out my approach. Now that I have my code proved out, I'm going to expand it to look at all unmaintained ports regardless of category. Any suggestions for where I should post the results? (That is, unless you think the bitbucket is the only suitable place for it.)