Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:03:11 -0700 From: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC : Add ports "status update" page to the FreeBSD wiki Message-ID: <200807130203.11912.david@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <8878A47C-C488-444F-BA53-2D1E1255F99E@gmail.com> References: <8878A47C-C488-444F-BA53-2D1E1255F99E@gmail.com>
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On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:52:43 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello doc'ers, > Before going and making a change to the Wiki, I was wondering whether > or not folks would be receptive to adding a "meta-page" to track ports > updates for larger / fairly dependent packages, such as Perl, Python, > KDE, Gnome, X.org, etc for purposes of reducing long email threads > with little benefit, like the following: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049609.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049616.html > > (Both are from the same mail thread, but just were filed differently > in mailman). > The issue is that sometimes ports progress can go 'unpublicized' for > some time and people aren't aware of why port(s) x-y-z hasn't/haven't > been updated yet, even though it's/they have been 'stable' (in this > case Perl) for months. > Thanks, > -Garrett Sounds a very good idea to me - especially in view of recent experience!! Thank you David
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