Unmaintained ports [was: Re: Unmaintained ports with fetch errors]

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Mon Feb 14 12:59:29 PST 2005


Following up to my own post, the _truly_ brave can use portsmon to show
the status of all 3,533 (!) unmaintained ports via:

http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portsconcordanceformaintainer.py?maintainer=ports%40FreeBSD.org

Be patient.  This page will take quite some time to load.

Note: about 10% of these ports have some kind of errorlog on pointyhat.

Ports that I was surprised to see listed include:

http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=archivers&portname=rpm
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=devel&portname=gettext
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=devel&portname=stlport
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=graphics&portname=gphoto2
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=graphics&portname=lcms
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=graphics&portname=libglut
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=tcl83
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=lang&portname=tcl84
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=print&portname=ghostscript-afpl
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=print&portname=ghostscript-gnu
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=security&portname=libmcrypt
http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portoverview.py?category=security&portname=openssh

In addition, the games/ and japanese/ categories are in particular need
of help.

I would surely be nice if we could get more volunteer maintainers.

mcl



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