From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 06:53:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7084416A4CE for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 06:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CF5A43D2D for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 06:53:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 10868 invoked by uid 513); 19 May 2004 13:53:51 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.21 Clear:RC:1(213.146.114.24):SA:0(-4.9/5.0):. Processed in 0.494043 secs); 19 May 2004 13:53:51 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 19 May 2004 13:53:51 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:53:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: root@pukruppa.net To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20040519122810.GA97256@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20040519155111.I937@pukruppa.net> References: <20040519122810.GA97256@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Featured ports of the month" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:53:07 -0000 On Wed, 19 May 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Here's an idea I just had (while pondering whether the x2x port is the > most useful X tool ever): > > The ports collection is so large thesedays that it can be hard to find > something unless you already have some idea about what you're looking > for. However those of us who have been using FreeBSD for a while tend > to have picked up a collection of ports that are now essential for our > day-to-day FreeBSD use. > > It would be a nice project to publicize these a bit. For example, we > could ask users to submit a write-up of ports that they find > remarkable or useful, explaining briefly what the port does and why > it's cool or useful to them. Once a month or so a selection of these > could be posted on the website. Nice idea, sourceforge.net does something like this and one always gets good hints for something new to test. Regards, Uli. > > This project would need one or more coordinators, to solicit > submissions from users as needed, select the items for publication and > update the webpages. > > Is anyone interested in taking this on? > > Kris > > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+