Let's make a FreeBSD ports blog! CCCCOOOL =)
Vaaf
vaaf at broadpark.no
Thu Mar 9 20:33:33 UTC 2006
At 20:55 09.03.2006, Steel City Phantom wrote:
> This is a useful idea, but i don't think you have to go and develop a
> whole new site to make it happen. simply take the existing ports
> search application ([1]www.freebsd.com/ports) and make some small
> modifications to it. stuff like when the search results come up, when
> you click on the name of the app, instead of taking you to the CVS, it
> takes you to the blog for that app where the long description is the
> starting article. then you can add all the rating stuff and whatever
> you want below that.
> also, a link to the homepage for the app would be nice. im constantly
> searching freebsd ports and then in another tab searching google for
> the app i just found to figure out what in the world it is.
> i realize it would be double work for some maintainers but it can be
> written to be fairly automated im sure. and the port maintainers can
> just leave it up to the users to maintain the blog part if they like.
>
Steel City Phantom :) Thank you for your input!
Best regards,
Vaaf
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