Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:02:33 +0300 From: Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Conor McDermottroe <ports@mcdermottroe.com>, Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com>, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Number of maintainers vs. number of ports Message-ID: <20060525080233.GA75675@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> In-Reply-To: <20060524213942.GA89895@xor.obsecurity.org> 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> <20060524213942.GA89895@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:39:42PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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 m=
aintain
> > > >>> them?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> A script similar to the one below may be helpful (apologies in ad=
vance
> > > >>> if my shell-fu is weak). When I ran it, it surprised me to see th=
at
> > > >>> ports like lang/ruby18 and misc/compat5x are unmaintained. (Oh, f=
or the
> > > >>> time...)
> > > >>> =20
> > > > -- SNIP SCRIPT --
> > > > =20
> > > >> The INDEX file is really better suited for such things. Heres a qu=
ick
> > > >> example.
> > > >> =20
> > > > -- SNIP SCRIPT --
> > > >
> > > > True, if you want to see all of the unmaintained ports. I was aimin=
g at
> > > > showing people only the ports /they have installed/ that are
> > > > unmaintained. I don't expect people to adopt ports that they don't =
even
> > > > use themselves. :-)
> > > >
> > > > -C
> > > >
> > > > =20
> > >=20
> > > Ahh, good point! I still think that the INDEX file would be better th=
an
> > > 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/${o}|" ; do=
ne`" /usr/ports/INDEX-6 |grep -i '|ports@freebsd.org|' |cut -f 2 -d '|'
> >=20
> > with one call to pkg_info and one read of the INDEX file
> >=20
> > make -C /usr/ports -V INDEXFILE should be used for the index filename.
>=20
> Nice, I'll see about sending mail to announce with this recipe and a
> pointer to the document.
>=20
Well, if this is going to live somewhere outside this mailing list I
would like to do some polishing:
PORTSDIR=3D${PORTSDIR:-/usr/ports}
INDEX=3D"${PORTSDIR}/`make -C ${PORTSDIR} -V INDEXFILE`"
grep -F "`pkg_info -qao |sed -E "s#(.*)#|${PORTSDIR}/\1|#"`" ${INDEX} \
|grep -i '|ports@freebsd.org|' \
|cut -f 2 -d '|'
--=20
Vasil Dimov
gro.DSBeerF@dv
Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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