Projects that have stalled
Keeping an eye on spin.
Refactoring the front page of the wiki. Here are my overall notes.
Rewriting and generalizing my poudriere helper script.
- Trying to decrease the number of ports PRs in the PR database.
- Trying to decrease the number of broken ports overall, either by fixing them, encouraging others to fix them, or applying the Grim Reaper to ones that have outlived their usefulness.
- Working on ports meta-issues such as infrastructure improvements.
Making updates to the PortersHandbook to make it much more accurate and complete.
- Coming up with some kind of more useful idea about browsing and searching ports that the tools that we have right now, which I consider primitive.
- Suggesting minor changes to the FreeBSD web site to push some links down one page to reduce clutter while at the same time bringing important links up one page.
- Suggesting other changes to make FreeBSD more easily installable and maintainable, as I find them.
- Trying to improve FreeBSD's image outside of its own community, and trying to expand that community.
Rewriting powerpc/IBM9133 which is totally stale.
Attempting to create some scripts that will allow us to view the state of ports on one buildenv vs. another buildenv (e.g. "ports that are marked BROKEN on amd64 but not on i386"); to view the reason why packages that were not marked BROKEN and thus were attempted did not build. See the preliminary results and the processlogs patch.
- Creating graphs of the state of packages on the various buildenvs over time.
Attempting to identify abandoned distfiles on freefall. (For comparison, here is the list of all distfiles on freefall. Someone else should take this over.
Check to see if eadler actually copied off whatever was useful in ports_links.html, then nuke it.
Coming up with proposals to fix the problems in the PortersHandbook.
Update portsmon to know about the new mailing lists
Trying to encourage a rework of the FAQ to be something more general, more concise, and more browseable. A proposal was posted on -doc but needs much more work.
- Trying to update the concept of when we consider a PR 'too old' -- with particular emphasis on basing it on FreeBSD version. A proposal was posted on -doc.
The FreeBSD architecture chart, showing the availability of various features on a per-architecture basis. It got political. It would be really cool if someone else were to pick it up and bring it back up to date.
My ports link page on freefall contains dozens of links which are all horribly stale.