On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 4:56 PM Matthew Dillon <[email protected]> wrote:
> This upgrade will allow us to do full builds for both release and dev in > roughly one day instead of seven days, > and do it without interfering with staging work that might be happening at > the same time. All these quick building cycles means we have more packages now, running and easily installed, than we've ever had before. Much better than when we were using pkgsrc tools - a problem that can be partially laid at my feet. Something I've wanted to do for some time is to create ports web pages, sort of like freshports, or pkgsrc.se, or one of those sites, just to show how much variety we have and for easy lookup. Given that our website is git-based, we could export the pkg-descr pages for each port, lay them out with links, and import automatically into the website. I'm working 3 jobs right now so it isn't going to happen from me soon, but that idea's there for the taking. > posterity). So we are looking into potentially shifting user interaction to > a web-based forum, perhaps > this year, and retiring the mailing lists, leaving just an archive for the > mailing list. Possibly sometime > this year, so look for action on that upcoming. This is in part why I started the Digest. (Everyone reading this knows about dragonflybsddigest.com, right?) There needs a way for people to pick up pertinent news without requiring a wade through mailing lists or realtime-only communication like IRC. I think it's worked well for catching announcements and topical information. Along those lines... I post something DragonFly-related daily, so you can tell the general level of project activity by how far back in time each post reaches for material. The more "postable" DragonFly things I find, the bigger my backlog. I'm currently more than _a month_ behind. I'm still linking to work done before the 5.6 release, cause there's more happening than my posting rate can keep up with! I've never had this much material before, in 17 years or so of posting.
