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On Monday, September 18th, 2023 at 1:04 PM, Stuart Henderson
<s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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 openbsd ports mailing-list
> > <ports@openbsd.org>.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 is a good place to look for outdated unmaintained ports.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 (also: sometimes a port is outdated just because nobody got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.
I appreciate the advice and guidance. I understand it is best to work
on things you have a vested interest in, but that doesn't apply to me
but wanted to help anyway (helping where short-handed/not enough folks
to work on things).
Right now it sounds like helping with ports would be a pointless
venture for me. I'll do more digging to see if there is still
somewhere that needs help. I have all the programs I need.
Thanks!
