More classes of maintainer

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 01:58:00PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On 11/5/23 13:37, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> > To clarify - this was in the context of commits to base/
> > 
> > (That may or may not change your perception - but like I said, I
> > didn’t measure and this is totally measurable).
> 
> I don't think the base tools are getting a lot of attention because
> they mostly just work?

Maybe that's the perception, but I'd argue it really isn't true. There
are lots of improvements that could be had in base, if somebody had the
time to implement them.

Just to name a few ideas:

- Hooks to run certain scriptlets (defined somewhere in the ports tree)
  when files in specific directories are installed
- Switching selfupdate from rsync to http, which would avoid leaving
  users behind where the network blocks rsync
- Switching to more modern signatures compared to the RSA signature over
  the RMD160 hash we're still using today
- Improvements to make builds more reproducible (e.g.,
  SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, clamping mtimes of generated files, ...)
- Finishing the 'port migrate' command to automate the migration process
- Better post-build testing to detect problems in ports, e.g., scanning
  all compiled binaries to ensure that the files they link against are
  in their declared transitive dependencies.

And these are just the ones I have worked on, or have on my todo list.

-- 
Clemens