RFC : Add ports "status update" page to the FreeBSD wiki

[Garrett Cooper]

On Jul 12, 2008, at 4:52 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> Hello doc'ers,
> 	Before going and making a change to the Wiki, I was wondering  
> whether or not folks would be receptive to adding a "meta-page" to  
> track ports updates for larger / fairly dependent packages, such as  
> Perl, Python, KDE, Gnome, X.org, etc for purposes of reducing long  
> email threads with little benefit, like the following:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049609.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-July/049616.html
>
> 	(Both are from the same mail thread, but just were filed  
> differently in mailman).
> 	The issue is that sometimes ports progress can go 'unpublicized'  
> for some time and people aren't aware of why port(s) x-y-z hasn't/ 
> haven't been updated yet, even though it's/they have been  
> 'stable' (in this case Perl) for months.
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

	I read through and apparently there already is sort of a TODO list  
for KDE, but not for gnome, and not for any other important projects.
	Just thought I'd note that before someone else does...
Thanks,
-Garrett