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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:24:23 -0800
From:      "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Subject:   Re: Unmaintained ports [was: Re: Unmaintained ports with fetch errors]
Message-ID:  <200502141324.24089.reso3w83@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0502141418580.24248-100000@pancho>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0502141418580.24248-100000@pancho>

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On Monday 14 February 2005 12:59 pm, Mark Linimon wrote:
> Following up to my own post, the _truly_ brave can use portsmon to
> show the status of all 3,533 (!) unmaintained ports via:
>
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portsconcordanceformaintainer.py?maintai
>ner=ports%40FreeBSD.org
>
> Be patient.  This page will take quite some time to load.
>
> Note: about 10% of these ports have some kind of errorlog on
> pointyhat.
>
> Ports that I was surprised to see listed include:
>
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=archivers&portn
>ame=rpm
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=devel&portname=
>gettext
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=devel&portname=
>stlport
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=graphics&portna
>me=gphoto2
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=graphics&portna
>me=lcms
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=graphics&portna
>me=libglut
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=t
>cl83
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=t
>cl84
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=print&portname=
>ghostscript-afpl
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=print&portname=
>ghostscript-gnu
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=security&portna
>me=libmcrypt
> http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=security&portna
>me=openssh
>
> In addition, the games/ and japanese/ categories are in particular
> need of help.
>
> I would surely be nice if we could get more volunteer maintainers.
>
> mcl
>
Mark, I'd love to take over gettext.  The way that one is packaged has 
annoyed me for ages. Do I just submit a PR taking over maintainership 
or do I wait until someone gives the ok?

-Mike





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