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Date:      Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:06:41 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>, Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ability for maintainers to update own ports
Message-ID:  <200311102306.41300.linimon@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <200311102005.30163.linimon@lonesome.com>
References:  <1068458390.38101.19.camel@dirk.no.domain> <3FB00E53.8060603@fillmore-labs.com> <200311102005.30163.linimon@lonesome.com>

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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



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