On 10/3/14, Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@openbsd.org> wrote: > Hi. > > So, to all of you slackers out there who are wondering how you could > contribute to the project, have a look at: > http://portroach.openbsd.org/ > > This will let you know the ports that could use an update in our tree. The > point is not to *blindly* update everything of course, but at least it will > give you a chance to look at candidates (full disclosure: there are many!). > The "the openbsd ports mailing-list" MAINTAINER references all orphan ports, > so it's likely there's some nice work to do in there -- some of which may be > very trivial. > > Oh also, a nice side effect is that you can start pointing fingers at > maintainers that are slacking too much :-) > > Do note that portroach[1] is still a fast moving target: you can harass > jasper@ about the bugs you find... > > If you are maintaining a port and would like portroach to automatically send > you a mail when one of your port becomes out-of-date, drop me a mail and > I'll register you.
Yes, please add me to this list. Also, is there a "reverse" version of this process for when an update sent to ports@ seems to have fallen through the cracks? e.g., http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=141058337421511&w=2 Thanks, --patrick > This will allow you to update it before anyone has a chance to mock you for > being out-of-date! > > [1] > portroach is a friendly fork of FreeBSD's portscout > > -- > Antoine > >
