On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 03:55:56PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: > > My search for "popularity" metrics is intended to point me, as a > maintainer, to ports I might want to adopt now, rather than wait for > someone to complain about them. Everything *I* use is already > maintained, so I've moved on to looking for things other people might > need. But I don't want to waste my time on something that nobody uses. > :)
Interesting.. I used this sh(1) script to find unmaintained ports that I use. (I couldn't find a way to do the job with the existing tools like pkg_info or portmaster): #!/bin/sh prefix=/usr/ports/ makefile=/Makefile for file in `pkg_info -oxa | grep "/"` do yes=`grep MAIN ${prefix}${file}${makefile} | grep ports` if [ -n "$yes" ] then echo $file fi done I got: print/libpaper graphics/libwmf print/mgv x11-toolkits/open-motif devel/t1lib print/transfig textproc/urlview graphics/xfig all of which I use daily, either directly of via dependencies (xpdf or ImageMagick). So if you have the time and determination, I'd be extremely grateful if you decide to take up the maintainership of either of these ports. Many thanks Anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"