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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:20:20 -0500
From:      Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@exit2shell.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Call for potential ports maintainers
Message-ID:  <4D0BF0EE-1A12-46FD-8B71-97B622ACC704@exit2shell.com>
In-Reply-To: <E89F0FF9-A651-4129-A2F6-768D0F6591E6@exit2shell.com>
References:  <200902121232.30515.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> <20090227114735.48y4xktfk0sc8o8c@0x20.net> <20090227120324.ufwvmyg08wcog408@0x20.net> <E89F0FF9-A651-4129-A2F6-768D0F6591E6@exit2shell.com>

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On Feb 27, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Steven Kreuzer wrote:

>
> On Feb 27, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Lars Engels wrote:
>
>> Quoting Lars Engels <lme@FreeBSD.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org>:
>>>
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>>>> This topic came up in IRC, and I was encouraged to go out, and  
>>>> find some new
>>>> maintainers.
>>>>
>>>> At any given time, approximately 20 - 25% of all ports are  
>>>> unmaintained. Not
>>>> all unmaintained ports need updating, but some do. That is where  
>>>> you folks
>>>> come in.
>>>
>>> To find out which of your installed ports are unmaintained, I hacked
>>> together a little script. Just run it and it will show all currently
>>> unmaintained ports that you have installed.
>>
>> The list ate the attachment, so here it is:
>>
>> http://bsdpaste.bsdgroup.de/1099
>>
>> -- 
>> Lars Engels
>> E-Mail: lars.engels@0x20.net
>
> You can also pull that list up by searching on freshports.org for  
> ports with the maintainer set to ports@freebsd.org
>
> http://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=maintainer&method=match&query=ports%40freebsd.org&num=10&orderby=category&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search
>
> That search currently returns 4633 ports all waiting for someone to  
> adopt them

Never mind. I read your script to fast. That returns every port that  
is currently unmaintained. Yours just returns the unmaintained ports  
you have installed.

Sorry about that.

--
Steven Kreuzer
http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer




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