RFC : Add ports "status update" page to the FreeBSD wiki

[David Southwell]

On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:52:43 Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hello doc'ers,
> 	Before going and making a change to the Wiki, I was wondering whether
> or not folks would be receptive to adding a "meta-page" to track ports
> updates for larger / fairly dependent packages, such as Perl, Python,
> KDE, Gnome, X.org, etc for purposes of reducing long email threads
> with little benefit, like the following:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049609.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049616.html
>
> 	(Both are from the same mail thread, but just were filed differently
> in mailman).
> 	The issue is that sometimes ports progress can go 'unpublicized' for
> some time and people aren't aware of why port(s) x-y-z hasn't/haven't
> been updated yet, even though it's/they have been 'stable' (in this
> case Perl) for months.
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

Sounds a very good idea to me - especially in view of recent experience!!

Thank you

David