Lars Engels had an idea. Why not have a place where you can download a port skeleton? You know, the files that make up a port (Makefile, pkg-plist, distinfo, etc).
As Lars put it:
It came to my mind when I tried out the Frenzy live cd yesterday. It does not have the iwi-firmware port […]

Last week I took the car in for an oil change. I usually wait for the work to be done, and while waiting, I head over the road to a Perkins for some breakfast. While there, I usually do a bit of coding. It is actually a good environment for this. The […]

Alexander Botero-Lowry and I came up with a VERY good idea today. Search icons beside names.
The BETA website has the icons added in already. Look at maintainer and committer. Once I finished, those icons will take you to the search page. That will get the list of ports maintained by […]

When I mentioned in the #postgresql channel that FreshPorts/FreshSource had moved to PostgreSQL, the first question was: where’s your Powered By PostgreSQL logo? My reply? At the bottom of the FreshPorts about page. Granted, those logos could be a little higher up on the page.
But that’s not what prompted this post. […]

A user recently asked if we could show the size of the port/package. Getting the size of the distfiles is relatively easy. It’s in the distinfo file. For slave ports, we already know the master port, so we get the information from there.
It might also be nice to show the size of […]

Tonight we were trying to find a particular commit by a particular committer. I thought: wouldn’t a page listing all the commits by given commiter be useful? Paginate it, let people scroll through it.
One day…