> Edd, although no developer I am interested in assisting. > Personally, following the six month -stable cycle fits my > needs better than following -current. I have used the diffs > at http://openbsd.rutgers.edu/ as a resource for creating > -stable packages and I now see UNSUPPORTED 4.3 packages are > available. Perhaps this would be a good starting point?
I don't pretend to know the solution to this problem, but I do think that more people working on current ports, on ports in general, would free up some of the more experienced developers so that they could maintain a -stable branch. I don't think a new person or group of people jumping in from zero and maintaining stable ports is going to happen. It's a lot of work and requires some proven understanding of the ports system and OpenBSD itself. So, if you have time to work on stable ports, and access to a machine that can run -current, and want to help, why not start with "real" -current ports? Any cheap old box, of any arch, will do.
