Number of maintainers vs. number of ports

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:38:14PM +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:46:49AM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> > 
> > Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:18:58AM -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> > >>     
> > >>> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:25:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > >>>   
> > >>>       
> > >>>> Nevertheless, I'd still like to see more maintaine{rs,d ports}.  We
> > >>>> now have a nice document about "what it means to be a maintainer", so
> > >>>> I think we should start doing some outreach to bring new people in.
> > >>>>     
> > >>>>         
> > >>> Perhaps we should encourage users to look at the ports they have
> > >>> installed that are unmaintained and think about volunteering to maintain
> > >>> them?
> > >>>
> > >>> A script similar to the one below may be helpful (apologies in advance
> > >>> if my shell-fu is weak). When I ran it, it surprised me to see that
> > >>> ports like lang/ruby18 and misc/compat5x are unmaintained. (Oh, for the
> > >>> time...)
> > >>>       
> > > -- SNIP SCRIPT --
> > >   
> > >> The INDEX file is really better suited for such things. Heres a quick
> > >> example.
> > >>     
> > > -- SNIP SCRIPT --
> > >
> > > True, if you want to see all of the unmaintained ports. I was aiming at
> > > showing people only the ports /they have installed/ that are
> > > unmaintained. I don't expect people to adopt ports that they don't even
> > > use themselves. :-)
> > >
> > > -C
> > >
> > >   
> > 
> > Ahh, good point! I still think that the INDEX file would be better than
> > doing `make -V MAINTAINER` for the ports though. :)
> > 
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> grep -F "`for o in \`pkg_info -qao\` ; do echo "|/usr/ports/${o}|" ; done`" /usr/ports/INDEX-6 |grep -i '|ports at freebsd.org|' |cut -f 2 -d '|'
> 
> with one call to pkg_info and one read of the INDEX file
> 
> make -C /usr/ports -V INDEXFILE should be used for the index filename.

Nice, I'll see about sending mail to announce with this recipe and a
pointer to the document.

Kris
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