Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:33:23 +0100 From: Vaaf <vaaf@broadpark.no> To: Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Let's make a FreeBSD ports blog! CCCCOOOL =) Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060309213226.022c5550@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <44108831.4070400@yahoo.com> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060308204431.0225c438@broadpark.no> <f2c91f770603091146r6db8480cx963335ba90bf673@mail.gmail.com> <44108831.4070400@yahoo.com>
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At 20:55 09.03.2006, Steel City Phantom wrote: > This is a useful idea, but i don't think you have to go and develop a > whole new site to make it happen. simply take the existing ports > search application ([1]www.freebsd.com/ports) and make some small > modifications to it. stuff like when the search results come up, when > you click on the name of the app, instead of taking you to the CVS, it > takes you to the blog for that app where the long description is the > starting article. then you can add all the rating stuff and whatever > you want below that. > also, a link to the homepage for the app would be nice. im constantly > searching freebsd ports and then in another tab searching google for > the app i just found to figure out what in the world it is. > i realize it would be double work for some maintainers but it can be > written to be fairly automated im sure. and the port maintainers can > just leave it up to the users to maintain the blog part if they like. > Steel City Phantom :) Thank you for your input! Best regards, Vaaf
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