FreeBSD ports which are currently marked broken

[Julian H. Stacey]

linimon at freebsd.org wrote:
> As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in
> the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users of ports

Hi all,
Reports should be ordered to draw the interest of readers, these aren't yet.

Probably:
  Many readers on ports@ often delete these periodic mails part unread, for
  lack of time, as too verbose & hard to quickly scan (not read) through.

  Remaining readers mostly just try to Quickly scan
  Just the 2nd column in the top line of each section, ie
		category/portname
  Just to check ports they use are not mentioned, 
  trying to Not read irrelevant junk, 
  hoping to hit Delete ASAP.
	If a port interest, they would be prepared to scan down 
	If not, delete ASAP, (as fewer are interested in creating
		patches & filing send-pr for ports they don't use).

It's hard to quickly scan Just those 2nd col 1st line.

To insert a simple initial list of nothing but port names:
	echo $shorter_intro 					> posting
	cat report | grep portname: | sed -e s/portname://	>> posting
	cat report 						>> posting
	cat footnotes_was_intro					>> posting

Move the bulky introduction to foot notes. Consider the eye of a busy reader:
  "Argh! I got trapped reading that old boring blurb Again!  
   Why no title like "Bad Ports Report" in top of body (not just Subject:) 
   to prompt us if we've seen the title before we can skip the intro?
   Probably no ports that interest me anyway, 
   Shall I wade through all that text, in case something of interest, Or
   Shall I gamble it's probably irrelevant to me, save time & hit Delete ?"

$shorter_intro= \
 "Ports listed below have gone bad; Details below list; Notes below that."

Cheers,
Julian
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