Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:38:14 +0300 From: Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org> To: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>, Conor McDermottroe <ports@mcdermottroe.com>, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Number of maintainers vs. number of ports Message-ID: <20060523143814.GA52944@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> In-Reply-To: <44731249.9080100@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> <20060523134217.GB88145@platinum.office.edgespace.net> <44731249.9080100@vonostingroup.com>
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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 maint=
ain
> >>> 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 t=
he
> >>> time...)
> >>> =20
> > -- SNIP SCRIPT --
> > =20
> >> The INDEX file is really better suited for such things. Heres a quick
> >> example.
> >> =20
> > -- 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
> >
> > =20
>=20
> Ahh, good point! I still think that the INDEX file would be better than
> doing `make -V MAINTAINER` for the ports though. :)
>=20
Here it is:
grep -F "`for o in \`pkg_info -qao\` ; do echo "|/usr/ports/${o}|" ; done`"=
/usr/ports/INDEX-6 |grep -i '|ports@freebsd.org|' |cut -f 2 -d '|'
with one call to pkg_info and one read of the INDEX file
make -C /usr/ports -V INDEXFILE should be used for the index filename.
--=20
Vasil Dimov
gro.DSBeerF@dv
Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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