On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:50:52 +0300, Subbsd 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.
That's why it is always good to search first if someone has already worked on porting libXXX. Sometimes there is already a PR with a new port that just hasn't been committed yet or people stopped working on it at a specific build problem. Most of the time i see this happening with small ports that are not that much of work. For bigger projects I try to keep the wiki page http://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts up to date. There you see the status of such a port and who is working on it. I won't cover all of them but I can always add more if people tell me. But it only makes sense if people know about that page and check it before starting to work on a bigger porting effort. -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/ _______________________________________________ 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"
