development communication place for ports work

[kenorb]

Is there any development communication place where I can see that other person are interested as well porting specified port? Some votes, track tickets, anything that make it easier?
Regarding this (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=19418), how do I know that somebody already started to port some software?

[SirDice]

Yes, the freebsd-ports@ mailinglist.

[kenorb]

This one?
http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.ports
Thank you.

[SirDice]

No, that's a usenet group.

Handbook: Appendix C. Resources on the Internet; C.1 Mailing Lists (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL)

[kenorb]

Is this group is available from groups.google.com or in simple way from web browser?
Otherwise I'll not have time for subscribing and reading my e-mails everyday.

[Nukama]

If you want to know, if someone has started to port some software, you should search the freebsd-ports@ (http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-ports&r=1&w=2)mailinglist and the internet.

freebsd-ports@ is the official place for porting, but porting efforts are scattered across several places.
Some porters run their preferred source-code-management system, some info is found in the FreeBSD-Wiki.
There are some port-branches accessible through ports-mgmt/portshaker (namely enlightenment, texlive, bsd-sharp, marcuscom_ports).

But I see no official ports-devel nor a ports-sandbox.

There is also an unofficial channel in EFnet (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Efnet) called #bsdports.

[eye]

There is Wanted Ports (http://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts) page. Not many care, though. A ticket system to address this would be good. However, we're stuck with decrepit GNATS which sucks from a user/contributor POV (no edit, no subscribe, no/poor mime, no unicode, no VCS integration, etc) and many scripts (AA, post-commit, etc) around it.

[kenorb]

No web version (with functionality to post) of that Mailing Lists? Why?

[SirDice]

No web version (with functionality to post) of that Mailing Lists? Why?

Because they're mailinglists not forums?

[kenorb]

This is the mailing list as well:
http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.hackers
I could use my Google account to post my messages, people can use also mail method to receive and reply to it.

I just feel that I'm in 90's

[DutchDaemon]

This topic has been closed. Issues as technical or detailed as this should not be discussed in general user-oriented forums like The FreeBSD Forums. These forums are intended for end-user support with installing and/or running FreeBSD and/or applications from the ports tree, not for routinely resolving low-level problems with the operating system or add-on applications. Developers and port maintainers usually do not spend much time here, and we routinely refer technically detailed questions to them.

Consider opening this topic elsewhere, e.g.:

In the case of the FreeBSD base system:

1) by posting to one of the relevant mailing lists (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo)
2) by opening a bug report (http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html)

In the case of ported applications:

1) by contacting the port maintainer (run make maintainer in the port directory)
2) by opening a bug report (http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html)