On 2023/09/18 13:34, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2023/09/18 12:27, Christoff Humphries wrote: > > Hello all. > > > > Is there a way I can find ports that are abandoned, need help, or > > otherwise are things I can contribute to? Preferably is there a way I > > can discern this information without bugging people like posting on > > this mailing list? > > > > Selfishly, there are no packages I could use on OpenBSD (outside of > > the pentesting ones that the SecBSD folks are working on that will > > hopefully be pushed upstream someday [I'm a pentester, too]), so I > > don't have an vested interest in ports I need on the system. I do > > appreciate that Qt 6 and Qt 6 httpserver are included in -current > > ports (which I tested and work great!). > > > > Thanks in advance. I helped with ports long ago but that was 20 years > > ago. > > > > https://portroach.openbsd.org/the%20openbsd%20ports%20mailing-list%20%[email protected]%3E.html > is a good place to look for outdated unmaintained ports.
(also: sometimes a port is outdated just because nobody got round to it, but sometimes there's a good reason - it's often helpful to check cvs log and the ports@ archive before starting on an update, especially if it's a complicated one). > I'll make a comment though. If a port is long abandoned then there's > a fair chance that nobody else particularly cares about it, randomly > updating such ports that you don't particularly care about either means > that you're doing work, and asking someone else to do work to review, > for something that maybe nobody really wants/needs. So it is probably > better to try to find things which are actually of interest to you. >
