From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 10:41:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50CC16A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:41:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta4.adelphia.net (mta4.adelphia.net [68.168.78.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E26343D31 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: from borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net ([67.21.169.8]) by mta10.adelphia.netESMTP <20040331182907.BCSG23599.mta10.adelphia.net@borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net>; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:29:07 -0500 Received: by borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7873D1180; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:29:04 -0800 (PST) From: John Merryweather Cooper To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1080757219.889.16.camel@gyros> References: <200403310656.i2V6uS7p029577@ns1.mezzweb.com> <1080731748.648.12.camel@localhost> <1080739187.73073.28.camel@hood.oook.cz> <20040331132554.GC84869@voodoo.oberon.net> <1080755962.889.13.camel@gyros> <1080756364.669.19.camel@localhost> <1080757219.889.16.camel@gyros> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1080757743.669.24.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:29:05 -0800 cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update port: www/screem 0.8.2 -> 0.10.1, repo copy www -> editors and some clean up X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:41:25 -0000 On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 10:20, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:06, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:59, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:56, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:25:54 +0200, Kirill Ponomarew > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:19:47PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > > > > >> With www/peacock maintainer's hat on: > > > > >> > > > > >> OMG why?? > > > > > > > > > > Because these *are* editors, doesn't matter what formats they > > > > > can edit. The main purpose of this software is to edit > > > > > something. > > > > > > > > I second! > > > > > > I third. Their primary purpose is an editor. They should be > > > cross-referenced to www. That way, all the indexing tools will still > > > show them in both categories. > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > Well, once you've got a committer on your side, I'm going to lose, but I > > think the organization structure of the tree needs some serious > > consideration if we're heading in this direction. > > My opinion certainly isn't law. I agree that the tree does need some > work, and probably some dedicated resources to do cataloging. Portmgr > is working on a new tree layout, so it's probably good to leave things > where they are for now. However, if I was adding an HTML editor, my > first thought would be, "editors." > > Joe Making this a more useful thread, our we headed toward a taxonomy that's more functionally oriented or more descriptively oriented? Whichever direction we're headed, what are the guidelines--stated clearly enough so a new port author can traverse the guidelines and come up with a placement--that are proposed? jmc