From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 21:07:23 2003 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 3E04516A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:07:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB45C43FDD for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:07:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from lonesome.lonesome.com (cs242746-11.austin.rr.com [24.27.46.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA0D140AA; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:07:19 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon Organization: Lonesome Dove Computing Services To: Oliver Eikemeier , Charles Swiger Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:06:41 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1068458390.38101.19.camel@dirk.no.domain> <3FB00E53.8060603@fillmore-labs.com> <200311102005.30163.linimon@lonesome.com> In-Reply-To: <200311102005.30163.linimon@lonesome.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311102306.41300.linimon@lonesome.com> cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ability for maintainers to update own ports 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: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 05:07:23 -0000 It's always a little dicey to follow up to oneself, but here goes: > There is by no means a shortage of orphaned ports. Everyone > should adopt one today! :-) I tweaked my ports monitoring code, and it now generates the following statistics: Total number of ports: 9629 Number of ports with no maintainer: 2519 (26.2%) Ports with no maintainer and build errors in at least one build environment: 423 (4.39%) Ports with no maintainer and outstanding PRs: 135 (1.40%) Union of the above two ("ports in need of attention" in my shorthand): 520 (5.40%) So there's some statistics for folks to ponder about. If you want to help FreeBSD's ports collection, that "423" number surely looks like a good place to start. mcl