Share SVN or something for people working on the ports together

[Chris Rees]

On 22 January 2011 16:50, Subbsd <subbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I think - maybe it's a good idea to create something like sourceforge place
> but only for FreeBSD ports. A place online where some people can work
> together for port, not individually as it is now. For example, I decided to
> port libXXX on FreeBSD. One of the problem - i do not know -does over this
> someone. So I created a project and start some work. No matter - can I
> finish it or not - has registered and begun work. Other people see - cool,
> someone has already started work on it. Once registered, they can also
> correct or add to my work. This is to prevent a situation where a dozen
> independent people start trying to port libXXX and everyone stumbles on its
> own problems. Not all of us are professionals and have the same knowledge,
> but work together more efficient.

Sounds like it duplicates the existing ports tree.

Perhaps people should express their intentions of porting libXXX on
the list, then
before porting one could search the archives to check no-one else is
working on it.

Chris