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%3cpo...@openbsd.org%3E.html is a good place to look for outdated unmaintained ports. 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.
