Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:42:17 +0100 From: Conor McDermottroe <ports@mcdermottroe.com> To: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.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: <20060523134217.GB88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> In-Reply-To: <44730BC2.8000509@vonostingroup.com> References: <cb5206420605220417o5a5d8667l648f42644f39d4e4@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420605220528k1be0bc03t1c74c6c8e08f35b4@mail.gmail.com> <20060523012528.GA8161@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060523121638.GA88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> <44730BC2.8000509@vonostingroup.com>
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:18:58AM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > A script similar to the one below may be helpful (apologies in advance
> > if my shell-fu is weak). When I ran it, it surprised me to see that
> > ports like lang/ruby18 and misc/compat5x are unmaintained. (Oh, for the
> > time...)
-- SNIP SCRIPT --
> The INDEX file is really better suited for such things. Heres a quick
> example.
-- SNIP SCRIPT --
True, if you want to see all of the unmaintained ports. I was aiming 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
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