Section pages with policies for Ruby, Python, Perl? (and others?)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 11, 2009, at 09:12, C. Florian Ebeling wrote:

> I yesterday threw together a RubySection page in the wiki. Now I
> wanted to hear thoughts if we should add one for every group of ports
> where we have some implicit policy of how to add ports and if you like
> the idea at all.
>
> I think of them to state how ports are handled in a certain
> special-interest section: wether to add them at all or rather use
> package managers (like gem, eggs, pear, cpan) and point users there,
> who the interested maintainers for a certain section are, and other
> topics which would fit here.

Whether to add ports at all: I think the answer for all ports if you  
want to be able to declare something as a dependency of another port,  
then you need it to be a port.

Who the maintainers are: I think that's adequately covered by the  
maintainers field in each Portfile.