Suggestion

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 28, 2013, at 17:17, Chris Jones wrote:

> On 28 May 2013, at 10:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On May 28, 2013, at 16:56, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd like to know that a port has been successfully installed, recently.  IOW that it hasn't suffered bitrot!
>> 
>> To some degree, you can answer that already, by checking if there is a recent package on the packages server.
> 
> I was about to say the same. To my mind, this question is much better/simply answered by just checking to see if the build bots successfully built the port question. I don't see what you gain by getting user stats as well.

Just because the buildbots could build the port when it was last updated doesn't mean that anybody can still build it today. For example, one of its dependencies could have been updated in a way that is incompatible.