Re: Finding abandoned ports

2013-10-31 Thread Jerry 
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:02:39 +
Alex Laurie articulated:

> Only really just getting into FreeBSD but I am inspired to help out.
> I'm not a developer or anything. However I do like to install and
> update things. I though one area I may be able to help out is in the
> ports side of things. I have been through the Porters handbook and
> thought I would try updating some out of date ports to cut my teeth
> so to speak. Looking around I don't seem to see anywhere with
> abandoned ports that need some love.

Well, if you would like somewhere to start, try this one. The
"/usr/ports/editors/texmakerx" port is very old. The actual program was
renamed on 06/15/11 to TeXstudio .
The latest version is 2.6.4 available on SourceForge. The maintainer of
the port has no interest in updating the port and would probably be
happy to turn it over to you. I was going to update it, but time and job
constraints are making it more difficult than I thought. Plus, with the
changes in the port's system, I just don't have the time to learn the
new protocols and get the port ready. I might be able to give you some
assistance, but that would be about it.

-- 
Jerry ♔

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Re: Finding abandoned ports

2013-10-31 Thread Kubilay Kocak 
On 31/10/2013 1:02 AM, Alex Laurie wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Only really just getting into FreeBSD but I am inspired to help out. I'm
> not a developer or anything. However I do like to install and update
> things. I though one area I may be able to help out is in the ports side of
> things. I have been through the Porters handbook and thought I would try
> updating some out of date ports to cut my teeth so to speak. Looking around
> I don't seem to see anywhere with abandoned ports that need some love.
> 
> Any help or pointers?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alex
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Jump on IRC, there's always plenty of little things that come up that
would be perfect for getting ramped up and lots of people to help you
orient yourself.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/IrcChannels

Drop in and say hi on one of the port related channels :)

See you there!

Koobs
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Re: Finding abandoned ports

2013-10-31 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith 
On 10/30/2013 09:02 AM, Alex Laurie wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Only really just getting into FreeBSD but I am inspired to help out. I'm
> not a developer or anything. However I do like to install and update
> things. I though one area I may be able to help out is in the ports side of
> things. I have been through the Porters handbook and thought I would try
> updating some out of date ports to cut my teeth so to speak. Looking around
> I don't seem to see anywhere with abandoned ports that need some love.
>

If you are running FreeBSD version 10 or higher, I have a couple of
ports that don't build: cad/gmsh-occ and math/GiNaC.  I am still running
FreeBSD 8 where these build problems don't occur.  If you could fix
these for me, I would be very grateful, because the rest of my life
(work and family) is really occupying a lot of my time right now.

But only if you would enjoy doing this - I will probably get to it
eventually, but just not yet.

Thanks, Stephen

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Re: Finding abandoned ports

2013-10-30 Thread Mark Linimon 
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 03:19:10PM +0100, Guido Falsi wrote:
> First of all you can look here:
> 
> http://portscout.freebsd.org/po...@freebsd.org.html
> 
> This is a list of unmaintained ports, with highlight for the ones
> needing to be updated.

Another tool is portsmon, which cross-references port build failures
and PRs.  Note: the page for "ports with no maintainer" can take a
while to load.

http://portsmon.freebsd.org/
http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsconcordanceformaintainer.py?maintainer=ports%40FreeBSD.org
http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=games&portname=xlife (e.g.)

mcl
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Re: Finding abandoned ports

2013-10-30 Thread Lars Engels 

Am 30.10.2013 15:02, schrieb Alex Laurie:

Hello all,

Only really just getting into FreeBSD but I am inspired to help out. 
I'm

not a developer or anything. However I do like to install and update
things. I though one area I may be able to help out is in the ports 
side of
things. I have been through the Porters handbook and thought I would 
try
updating some out of date ports to cut my teeth so to speak. Looking 
around

I don't seem to see anywhere with abandoned ports that need some love.

Any help or pointers?



You can start by finding out which installed ports are unmaintained, 
give

them some love and maybe become a maintainer. See

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2012-December/079880.html

for details.


Lars
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Re: Finding abandoned ports

2013-10-30 Thread Alex Laurie 
Thanks all.

I'll take a look at the highlighted ones. See if I can get an easy one and
follow the Porters handbook for all this diff stuff.

I'm sure there will be a few mails with query's!


On 30 October 2013 14:08, Kurt Jaeger  wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Only really just getting into FreeBSD but I am inspired to help out.
>
> Very cool!
>
> > I'm
> > not a developer or anything. However I do like to install and update
> > things. I though one area I may be able to help out is in the ports side
> of
> > things. I have been through the Porters handbook and thought I would try
> > updating some out of date ports to cut my teeth so to speak. Looking
> around
> > I don't seem to see anywhere with abandoned ports that need some love.
>
> Here, try this link:
>
> http://portscout.freebsd.org/po...@freebsd.org.html
>
> It shows all ports which have 'po...@freebsd.org' as maintainer.
>
> Most of those need maintainers.
>
> > Any help or pointers?
>
> If you need help, send me a mail!
>
> --
> p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372 7 years to
> go !
>
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Re: Finding abandoned ports

2013-10-30 Thread Guido Falsi 

On 10/30/13 15:02, Alex Laurie wrote:

Hello all,

Only really just getting into FreeBSD but I am inspired to help out. I'm
not a developer or anything. However I do like to install and update
things. I though one area I may be able to help out is in the ports side of
things. I have been through the Porters handbook and thought I would try
updating some out of date ports to cut my teeth so to speak. Looking around
I don't seem to see anywhere with abandoned ports that need some love.

Any help or pointers?


Hi,

This is a great method to start helping with the ports tree.

First of all you can look here:

http://portscout.freebsd.org/po...@freebsd.org.html

This is a list of unmaintained ports, with highlight for the ones 
needing to be updated. Keep in mind that the check for new versions is 
automatic, so it can miss some and also report false positives.


Good luck! :)

--
Guido Falsi 
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Finding abandoned ports

2013-10-30 Thread Alex Laurie 
Hello all,

Only really just getting into FreeBSD but I am inspired to help out. I'm
not a developer or anything. However I do like to install and update
things. I though one area I may be able to help out is in the ports side of
things. I have been through the Porters handbook and thought I would try
updating some out of date ports to cut my teeth so to speak. Looking around
I don't seem to see anywhere with abandoned ports that need some love.

Any help or pointers?

Cheers

Alex
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