Bjoern A. Zeeb pointed out a problem today. On the following URL, there should be more commits per page. Only three are shown (at the time of writing).
http://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=committer&method=exact&query=jb&num=100&orderby=category&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&include_src_commits=include_src_commits
The page is showing 100 results per page. This should be 100 commits, but the result set is showing only 100 files. The SQL […]

The FreshPorts server is moving from San Jose to Austin. The server has been kindly and expertly hosted by Supernews since it arrived there in November 2006. However, Supernews has been bought by Giganews, who have kindly offerred to take over the hosting and sponsorship of FreshPorts.
Here’s a map showing the source and […]

FreshPorts is pretty good about not missing commits. It depends exclusively upon the cvs-all mailing list. If the message doesn’t arrive, it doesn’t get into FreshPorts.
In the interests of increasing the complexity of FreshPorts, I’d like to validate the database against the cvs-all archives. Each commit generates one email message. Each […]

FreshPorts often tries to help by creating HTML links. Most of the time, it gets this right. But for a recent port, it got it very wrong.
Have a look at the PostgreSQL 8.2 page. Note the commits for 05 Feb 2007 and 09 Jan 2007.
The code is taking what it thinks is […]

Central to how FreshPorts works is the parsing of the URL. Almost everying in FreshPorts is in a database, not in a static file somewhere. I need to improve the URL parsing.

A drill down refers to moving from summary information to detailed data by focusing in on something. On a ports commit, you can drill down in several ways. Take this commit for example. You can the following ways to drill down:
takes you to the FreeBSD email archive
takes you to the […]

Have you ever wanted to see all the commits to devel before? What about all the commits to the various Apache ports?

In the previous post I showed how I found out it was the ports-deleted page that was causing httpd to die. Since then, I finished my coding to introduce pagination into that URL What was once on one page, is now on 32 pages.
As a added bonus, because the changes were made to […]

I want a module/plugin for Apache 1.3 that will log requests when they arrive.

On August 9, Mark Linimon was talking about having users rank ports. The goal being to approximate a list of ‘key’ ports. I suggested allowing people to nominate their top N ports. And only N. They can change their selection at any time. It would be like a vote or poll, but […]