On 2023-09-18 15:14, Christoff Humphries wrote:
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).
Hello,
If you want to have a go here are a couple programs I've been
using everyday for quite some time that I planned to port at
some point:
runs very well and should be easy to port:
soju -> https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/soju
senpai -> https://git.sr.ht/~taiite/senpai
runs well but the 'parcel build' step requires a linux vm
(it'll work without it but that saves lots of disk space):
gamja -> https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/gamja
Otherwise in the 'might use at some point but need to first
figure out how firefox will deal with it' category we have:
gopass-jsonapi -> https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass-jsonapi
Have a good day!
On 2023-09-18 15:14, Christoff Humphries wrote:
------- Original Message -------
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 is a good place to look for outdated unmaintained ports.
(also: sometimes a port is outdated just because nobody got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!
