Changes to News Feeds
The news feeds now contain the committer’s email address.
Announcements
Site changes, new feature, etc.
FreshPorts design contest
I am pleased to announce a FreshPorts design contest. The prize? A trip to BSDCan 2007. Included are airfares, accommodation, and entry to BSDCan 2007, up to a value of CAD$1000. Take the existing FreshPorts website and give it a face lift. Improve it. Keep in mind that the basic information must remain the same. …
Greylisting
Here is my latest contribution to fight spam: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html
Removing an icon from FreshPorts
Things change. They evolve. In previous versions of FreshPorts, to see the files for a particular commit, you went to /category/ports/files.php?message_id=Some.Message.ID. But no longer. Now you can see all the details at /commit.php?message_id=Some.Message.ID. That’s a shorter URL and eliminates some ugly URL parsing. commit.php now doubles up and shows you both the commit details and …
The PostgreSQL Conference
There will be a PostgreSQL Conference in May 2007. I’ll definintely be there! I’m looking forward to this. It’s right after a BSD conference. There will be quite a few people attending both conferences. One trip, two conferences, a great time.
Opti has left the building
The 2U dual opteron server I’ve been writing about has left the building. On Monday, FedEx took control of the box. On Wednesday, it was delivered to an undisclosed location in Elk Grove, California, USA. On Thursday, it will be driven to San Jose California, where it will be installed at the SuperNews bunker. \o/
FreshPorts downtime
Earlier this week, we had a bit of a crisis. The colo which provides bandwidth and servers to FreshPorts (and all the other websites I run), was unexpectedly shutdown. BChosting sold their Vancouver facilities to Netluxe, who, by all accounts, shut down the ops center without notifying customers. Well, I wasn’t notified. I was contacted …
Latest Search and Sanity Test Failures changes now in production
The Search and Sanity Test Failure features are now in production. Enjoy.
Better searching: before and after
The FreshPorts search page has been around since May 2000 (nearly 6.5 years). Yesterday I added two new search capabilities…
Sanity Test Failures
FreshPorts has a long history of Sanity Testing each commit to the FreeBSD Ports tree. It has been doing this for two main reasons: Ensure the integrity of the FreshPorts database Help correct obvious errors as soon as possible In 2002, FreshPorts allowed committers to opt in to receiving these notifications directly. Prior to this …