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freebsd-ports

FreeBSD ports tree (read-only mirror) (by freebsd)

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Draft copies of the FreeBSD git transition documents (by bsdimp)

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freebsd-ports		freebsd-git-docs
	Project
39	Mentions	5
932	Stars	47
1.1%	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	0.0
about 10 hours ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

freebsd-ports

Posts with mentions or reviews of freebsd-ports. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-02.

An Open Letter to the FreeBSD Foundation, Core Team, Committers, and Community
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2023

Agreed.
I don't think the PR reviewer is calling the author in the example, and provided useful info, pointing out the relevant example.
Also, the author notes:
> The very first comment in the thread from a reviewer was simply only one word: “Why?” - That’s it, just one word. Why did I do this? Why work with such old hardware? Why is the sky blue? How the hell am I to know the context of what they’re referring to when asking a one-worded question?
Its clear from https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/189#discussion... that the author is asking why is this line needed, something a PR author should always be able to justify.
OpenSSL 3.0 ported – security/openssl
1 project | /r/freebsd | 18 Oct 2023
Thoughts of a Linux diehard user that has migrated to FreeBSD
3 projects | /r/freebsd | 23 Apr 2023

From https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/UPDATING:
I Need to create a FAMP stack with php74 on 13.1
1 project | /r/freebsd | 22 Mar 2023
Just saw KDE Plasma 5.27 available in ports!!
1 project | /r/freebsd | 15 Feb 2023

KDE: Update KDE Plasma Desktop to 5.26 · freebsd/freebsd-ports@d06d26f | https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=d06d26f8c45e468021b1ec1def42fb1ce600a3dc
I want to move from linux to bsd
5 projects | /r/freebsd | 4 Feb 2023

Say you really want to pin to Apache 2.5.54. Create a new empty repo, add a www/apache24 dir, and copy the files from that version of the ports tree into it.
Git archive checksums may change
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2023

They have not been stable
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/a43ec88422ee...
chromium disappeared from packages?
2 projects | /r/freebsd | 11 Jan 2023

As for announcements: how would this information be delivered to you? :) Major breakages that impact users are expected to tracked in Ports (not pkgs) through review of /usr/ports/CHANGES and /usr/ports/UPDATING. If a port gets renamed (moved), you'll find it mentioned there, or possibly in /usr/ports/MOVED (not human-readable). You can view those on the GitHub mirror if you wish, since not everyone builds from Ports: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports
How quickly is the port tree updated from freshports?
1 project | /r/freebsd | 6 Jan 2023
A Question: Gnome port for freebsd
1 project | /r/freebsd | 20 Dec 2022

at https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/main/chinese/chinese-calendar (for the port to FreeBSD) the files and Makefile are not too complex.

freebsd-git-docs

Posts with mentions or reviews of freebsd-git-docs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-14.

Blogpost - FreeBSD switches to git
2 projects | /r/freebsd | 14 Mar 2021

From the Preface, https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/git-why.md#downsides mentions Game of Trees (Got)
Online ports repository
2 projects | /r/freebsd | 21 Jan 2021

– emphatically, experimental (for example, beware of the default to a 2014 branch). Context: https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/URLs.md
FreeBSD src moves to Git
1 project | /r/freebsd | 23 Dec 2020

– with reference to temporary instructions at https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/src-cvt.md and other documents in that repo.
Heads Up Freebsd Changing From Subversion To Git
1 project | /r/freebsd | 22 Dec 2020

https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/TODO.md noted with thanks.