Introducing ports committer, Rene Ladan
I am pleased to introduce Rene Ladan, (rene) to the ports tree! He has been a long time ports contributor, and a Dutch Documentation committer. He made the classic mistake of sending in too many PRs, so I decided to punish him.
Congratulations, Rene!
Introducing ports committer, Giuseppe Pilichi
Last month (yes I know I am late), Gabor Pali asked me to co-mentor Giuseppe Pilichi (jacula@), to join the FreeBSD Haskell Effort, aka the Haskell World Domination team. As I had the pleasure to mentor pgj@ into the ports world, it seemed fitting to assist with jacula!
Congratulations, Giuseppe!
Catching up on recent events
March 25, 2010 by tabthorpe · 3 Comments
It has been awhile since I blogged, so I thought I would finally post some status updates.
A couple of weeks ago, Erwin Lansing popped up a window in IRC, he wanted to know how life was in my neck of the woods. The red flags should have went up, but they did not. By the end of the conversation, he had me convinced that I would be a good candidate for portmgr-secretary, a position he held for some time. Turns out, he accepted a position on the Board of Directors for the FreeBSD Foundation, and decided he needed to lighten his load. I accepted the position. Erwin tells me it will only a couple of hours a week of my time…
So in my very short tenure as portmgr-secretary, I have been fortunate enough to send acknowledgement emails to new ports committers, and announce in wake of FreeBSD 7.3 being released, and that the ports tree is wide open for commits!
Stay tuned, I hope to keep up Erwin’s tradition of portmgr related blog posts.
New ports committer, Alberto Villa
January 24, 2010 by tabthorpe · 2 Comments
I am pleased to announce my latest mentee, Alberto Villa. Alberto has been a dedicated contributor with the FreeBSD KDE team, and it was finally time to punish him with a ports commit bit.
Martin Wilke will be Alberto’s co-mentor in this little adventure!
Congratulations Alberto!
Dima Panov flying solo
January 22, 2010 by tabthorpe · 2 Comments
Dima “Red Fox” Panov, aka fluffy@ has been a dedicated contributor to the FreeBSD KDE team, and his hard work has paid off, miwi@ and I have cast him loose to collect pointy hats on his own.
It has been a pleasure being your mentor, Dima, good look, and may your INDEX breakages be elusive 
KDE 4.3.1 is now in FreeBSD ports tree
September 2, 2009 by tabthorpe · 3 Comments
With the coa[ch|x]ing of miwi and makc I did my first KDE mega commit to the ports repository, http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200909012219.n81MJlwK055334@repoman.freebsd.org.
KDE 4.3.1 is a bugfix, translation and maintenance update. KDE users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.
A big thanks to Martin and Max for their help, and let us not forget the contributors, testers and submitters that also made this happen.
Introducing new Ports Committer, Dima Panov
I will be mentoring Dima along with Martin Wilke. Dima was instrumental working behind the scenes in preparing the FreeBSD port of KDE 4.3 and as a result we are punishing him with a commit bit.
Dima’s new handle is fluffy@FreeBSD.org.
Just remember Dima, you are not a real committer until you break the INDEX, then fix it!
Call for testers Qt 4.5.2
July 9, 2009 by tabthorpe · 3 Comments
The FreeBSD KDE team is pleased to announce the availability of Qt 4.5.2 in the area51 repo. Please see the announcement, http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2009-July/005746.html for details.
Update proposed ports category, interantionalization
A brief in discussion on the freebsd-ports thread convinced me to change my proposal from i18n to internationalization, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-June/055475.html
I will await further potential feedback, Friday will mark one week since I made the original post. At that time, I will get my act together and take my proposal to portmgr@.
Stay tuned.
Proposed ports category, i18n
Just because life is not complicated enough, I opened up a can of worms by proposing a new ports category for the internationalisation/localisation effort.
It is my hopes to move all the *i18n* and *l10n* ports out of the misc category to their new home.
Please, please, please, if you have an opinion, pro or con to this proposal, check out my original post, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-June/055412.html
and reply to it via the ports@ mailing list.