Number of maintainers vs. number of ports

[Vasil Dimov]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:39:42PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.
> 
Well, if this is going to live somewhere outside this mailing list I
would like to do some polishing:

PORTSDIR=${PORTSDIR:-/usr/ports}
INDEX="${PORTSDIR}/`make -C ${PORTSDIR} -V INDEXFILE`"

grep -F "`pkg_info -qao |sed -E "s#(.*)#|${PORTSDIR}/\1|#"`" ${INDEX} \
	|grep -i '|ports at freebsd.org|' \
	|cut -f 2 -d '|'

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Vasil Dimov
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